The Blessed Rice in Nepal
Nowadays, people always talk about eating healthy. Therefore, black rice is well-known as the food which has the highest levels of antioxidants. The well-known black rice such as Indonesian black rice and Thai Jasmine black rice are made in those maritime countries. However, there are few people knowing that there is also black rice in Nepal and this kind of black rice had been blessed by the God of kindness—Bungadyah. The history of the black rice in Nepal started from the invasion by a King of Palpa called Mukunda Sen. At the beginning of the invasion, Mukunda ordered his soldiers to dig many trenches and hide all the rice which was harvested from all fields in Nepal. Mukunda was trying to create a starvation in the city. When he attacked the city of Lalitpur, the people in Lalitpur took the image of Bungadyah around the city. The priests performed a ritual bath to the image and asked for protection from the invasion and the starvation. When people realized that Mukunda came ...