A video of a man sliding through a rope for nearly one kilometre in Himachal’s Spail valley is doing the rounds on social media. Let us tell you that the footage records one of the historic rituals of the region, which took place after 40 years during the ‘Bhunda Maha Yagya’. A 65-year-old man was seen navigating through the valley on a wooden raft while keeping the age-old ‘rope-sliding’ tradition alive.
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The ritual rooted to the ‘valley of death’ in Shimla, Himachal, took place during a four-day-long celebration. During a cultural event ‘Bhunda Maha Yagya’, which is associated with the state’s rich heritage, a man of a specific community displayed an age-old custom by taking a wooden raft to slide through a one-kilometre-long rope.
The visuals showed a man identified as Surat Ram, representing the ‘jedi’ community of the Beda caste, travelling from one hill to another by sliding through a rope. He passed through the valley by taking the rope way and keeping the age-old practice alive.
The activity that looked dangerous reportedly saw the rope loosened from one end when the man had almost arrived on the other side.
A report in the NDTV stated that the rope tied to Surat Ram briefly fell from the hands of people holding it, but they quickly managed to grab it again before any unlikely event could occur.
It was learned that the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu was also present at the event. The visuals showed thousands of people crowding the premises to witness this ritual being carried out at Dalgaon, a remote village in the Rohru sub-division of Shimla.
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