Dharma Ratna Yami : Prof. Manik Lal shrestha

Prof. Manik Lal Shrestha, Professor of Tribhuvan University and a writer wrote in Smriti Grantha of Dharma Ratna Yami ( B. S. 2046) - Translated by Timila Yami Thapa

" In the year A. D. 1951 Dharma Ratna Yami  became Deputy Minister of Forest Ministry. He had advertised for a cook for his kitchen. He announced that the person should be from untouchable class and will be preferred. He had told the neighborhood communities and people in the valley. He selected a woman from Pode community . That woman for long time cooked in that house. One day he invited his relatives, friends including political leaders for a feast. He made this woman serve in the the feast. He felt that this was a very radical method of transforming these rigid traditional minded people and he felt it was important to create havoc among such people. People who did not know the cast of the lady serving ate, those who knew ran away. It was transition time of end of Rana government and formation of new government Some people including political leaders could not run away from the offer of the feast by such high ranking post of a Minister. The next day these people specially political leaders were found taking bath at Pashupati Nath and going through ritual of purifying the body involving Pandits called SUDDHI KARAN process..