Miscellaneous Events [10-11]

Ghya: Caku Sa(n)lhu [10] is a festival in the solar cycle that fell on the thirteenth day of Pohelathwa—late December in 1974/75. It always falls within a few days of this lunar date, and is noteworthy in that it is associated with the winter solstice and the beginning of the "ascending half" of the solar year, the six-month period during which the days progressively lengthen. It will be discussed in the next chapter. (Moderate.)

Chyala Punhi [11] is an ordinary punhi , with the addition that it is customary on this day to discard clay kitchen pots that are unusable on the neighborhood chwasa . Chyala is "a curry made from bamboo shoots, potatoes, peas and other vegetables" (Manandhar 1976, 136) which it was presumably customary to prepare on this punhi . It is an arbitrary decision as to whether to include such minimally differentiated monthly occasions in a list of annual events. (Minor.)