Sunday, 12 January, 2025
By Our Correspondent, Dhankuta, May 9: A 12-year-old girl has performed the final rites of her mother in Kagate, Dhankuta Municipality–3.
Pritija performed the rites of her 30-year-old mother Januka Karki who died on April 24 from the injuries she had suffered in a motorcycle accident a day before, shattering the misconception that only sons can perform the funeral rituals of their parents.
Pritija was Karki’s only child from her marriage to Prakash Neupane, a resident of Ankhibhui, Sankhuwasabha.
However, Karki and Neupane had divorced and Pritija had been living with her mother at Karki’s maternal home. After marriage, Karki no longer belonged to her paternal Gotra.
Hence, no one in her family could perform her final rites. Similarly, she lived separately from her husband so no one from her in-laws’ family also performed her rites.
This left only Pritija who took the responsibility society traditionally only reserved for boys and carried out all the tasks deemed religiously necessary to ensure her mother’s soul finds peace and ascends to heaven.
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