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This Yakkha article has been expanded to include available information. Each section can be expanded as and when more information become available. (Saildew (talk) 04:34, 2 February 2011 (UTC))
Respected editor(s),
I sincerly request you to replace the out dated text about "The Yakkha" (written in your famous encyclopaedic article www.en.wikipeida.com/wiki/yakkha) with the latest and comprehensive text supplied below.
Thanks.
Durga Hang Yakkha Rai
(Date: 2007.Jan.23)
The Yakkha edit
The indigenious Yakkha (identical with its Kirat fmily: Rai, limbu and Sunuwar of the Mongolian physionomy is one of the progenesis of Nepal's prehistoric kirat dynasty of arround about 100 BC. Today Yakkha's mother land is considered a patch among the historic Kirat region (i.e. east of the capital Kathmandu valley). It is claimed*; the ethnonym "Yakkha" as per the conquerer Aryan's Sanskrit grammer had been spelled in the Aryan-hindu mythologies as "Yaksa-sh" (like Bhisu-shu for an ascetic "Bhikchu of the Buddist holy scripts). Although the legendary Yaksa-sh, by the corrupt name of Yakkha and Kirats are being hailed in the Hindu's holy Vedas and the ancient Sanskrit literature, the Yakkha is eternally firm with its own clanonym: "The Yakkha".
The current national census, 2001 says: The yakkha's population is 17,003, retains mother tongue by 86 percent and by 81.4 percent follows the Kirat religion (Shamanism) whixh is the fourth largest religion of Nepal.
- Yakkha-Rai Durga hang, Kirat Yakkha ko ethihas ek Chalphal
(Discussion on the history of the Kirat Yakkha, a book in Nepali language) 2002.