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Food and Festivals of Ancient Nepal (4th to 8thCentury A.D.):
An Inscriptional Overview

Dr. Arpita Tripathy

Abstract

Licchavi kingdom was an ancient kingdom in Nepal, which existed in the Kathmandu Valley from approximately from ca. CE 300 to ca. 879. Centuries earlier at the start of the Buddhist era, a powerful republic known as Licchavi existed in what is today Bihar. It is to be mentioned here, some legendary sources from the Kathmandu Valley also describe the Kiraatas as early rulers there, taken over from earlier Gopaals or Aabhiras, both of whom may have been cow herding tribes. The food habit of ancient inhabitants of Nepal was very simple. Paddy was the most important food grain. Different kinds of fishes were available at that time. Paaniya-goSThikaa, Pranaali – goSThikaa were formed to supply the water for various purposes. The preservation custom seems to be practiced from very ancient time. The oil press (Tailashaalaa), copper smithies (TaamrakuTashaalaa), Pharmaceutical laboratories (Aarogyshaalaa)and indigo processing workshops (Niiliishaalaa) were given lands. Mallayuddha-goSThikaas, Vaaditra – goSThikaa existed and functioned in festivities.

Keywords: Nepal, Inscription, food and festival, goSThikaa, shaalaa, water, fish.

1. Introduction

The primary source for the history of the Licchavi Period (ca. A.D. 370 to ca.879) is formed by inscriptions, majority of which appear on stone, the shilaapatra-s. Art and architecture also convey good information in this regard. Other sources for Licchavi history are the vamshaavali-s and the brief but important notes in foreign records, especially the memoirs of two seventh-century Chinese travellers, the pilgrim Hsuan-tsang and the envoy Wang Hsuan tse. However, D.R. Regmi has published 164 inscriptions in his book ‘Inscriptions of Ancient Nepal’ in 1983. Regmi’s Inscriptions of Ancient Nepal is divided into four sections, viz. (1) Text, (2) English translation, (3) Plates and (4) Special introductory notes for every inscription in historical perspective. In this paper sometimes the number of inscriptions is cited instead of the name of the inscription. So, the inscriptions which are collected and numbered according to D.R. Regmi’s Inscriptions of Ancient Nepal (volume 1) are given below.

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