1. NED Manandhar & Vergati

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Modern Newar version

(-guu) 1. dealings. 2. behaviour. 3. social give and take, a close relationship between two families involving exchange of gifts and frequent entertaining back and forth as exists between families related by intermarriage. This relationship carries with it the obligation to mourn a death in the other family and to congratulate or condole the other family on appropriate occasions. 4. an intermarriage relationship between families. 5. the ceremonies and rituals associated with growing up, the most prominent of which is marriage

Model Sentence

mastae-gu bebahār yāe māni

Sentence Translation (English)

I have yet to carry out the various rituals which are incumbent upon my children (such as cutting the hair for the first time, giving the loin cloth, weddings, etc., in which the parents spent considerable sums of money)

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