The daughters have been fulfilling all the roles that the Kiriyaputri would have performed since the funeral on Push 2. Januka has only four daughters in the name of children.
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Challenging the belief that only sons are needed to light candles and perform funeral prayers when their parents pass away, four sisters from Falgunanda Rural Municipality-7 in Panchthar have joined hands to take care of their mother.
Daughters Sabina, Tikadevi, Asha and Bimala have joined the funeral procession of their late mother Januka Rijal. Their mother Januka passed away on May 1 at Nobel Hospital in Biratnagar.
Since the funeral on May 2, before bringing her home and performing the funeral rites, the daughters have been performing all the roles that a funeral procession should perform. Januka has only four daughters in the name of children. “Before the funeral, relatives and neighbors discussed who would perform the funeral procession, and when the daughter was born from her own womb, she said, ‘Who will suffer if we don’t do it?’” said the younger daughter Tikadevi, who stepped forward to perform the funeral procession.
Even if we asked our brothers and nephews to forward the funeral procession and the body, grandfather Dan Bahadur Rijal supported doing it according to their wishes, as his granddaughters are the real heirs of his daughter-in-law.
After that, the funeral procession was started by giving the funeral procession to the daughters. Among Januka’s four younger daughters, Tikadevi Rijal is unmarried. Dan Bahadur says that since the married daughter's surname and gotra are also in the maternal clan, there is no obstacle to performing the work of the kiriya, and he accepted their proposal, thinking that it would be more appropriate for the daughters to complete the work rather than hiring a second person as a kiriya putri.
From the fire rituals to lighting the fire to sitting on the kora after returning home, picking up and breaking the dhikr, all the work is being done by the daughters. 'Friday is the eleventh day since mother left, on Sunday we will go out after 13 days, after which we will send our mother to heaven without a barkhi for 1 year,' said the maternal daughter Tikadevi.
Out of the four who are performing the kiriya putri and performing the kora dhikr, 2 of them are wearing white clothes and sitting in the guise of kiriya putri, while 2 are wearing light red clothes.
