Traditional divorce and māy-absã fasting practices of the Newars of Nepal
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Abstract
For the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, divorce is not a new phenomenon. It has been socially and legally accepted since 1380 when coded laws were introduced in the Kingdom of the Nepal Valley (today’s Kathmandu Valley). Newars are not a homogenous group and this paper explores the diversity in the divorce practices of the various Newar caste groups. Various divorce procedures, including a unique method called māy-absã fasting, are discussed. Traditionally, most Newar women divorce by returning to the husband’s family the marriage confirmation gwe (areca nuts) that their natal family received. Rural and semi-urban farmers have the most unorthodox concepts of marriage, marrying freely, separating/divorcing, remarrying with no social stigma attached. There is some indication that solid family environmental and economic stability has contributed to lowering the divorce rate. One factor that stands out is the current trend of self-chosen intercaste marriage that contributes to an increase in the divorce rate.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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