kaala

In the Kanchenjunga region of eastern Nepal, the Limbus know red pandas as kaala, which literally means dark because of their underside pelage ; villagers of Tibetan origin call them hoptongar.

There are four daily pujas: the early morning puja, the day puja, the pradosha kaala puja, and the night puja.

In 1824, a detachment volunteered to sail over kaala paani ( Black War, at that time, Hindu soldiers would refrain from sailing over sea for the fear of losing their caste ) to take part in the first Burmese War and earned their second Battle Honour ‘ Ava ’.