The Magar of North, or at least the local branches of Taka,
Bacchi, Hukam,, belonging to the Deopahari-Gharti, Pun and Budha, do not trace
their origin to an alien and faraway land. They say they are of local stock,
born from the gods in the north-eastern sector of their present tribal
territory. They do not say that the first ancestors lived exactly at the
places where the present Magar dwell, but certainly not outside the confines of
their topographical universe.
This is an extract from Wild Boar and the Plough: The Origin Stories of Northern
Magar by Michael Oppitz
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