Question
(i) Who fights at the temple and how?
(ii) How is the river Bagmati used by the people there?
(iii) Find the words from the passage which mean the same as –
(a) dried, (b) emerges.
Solution
(i) Two monkeys fight at the temple. They chase one another, jump onto the Shivlinga, run around the temples and down to the river.
(ii) The people used the banks of the holy river Bagmati to cremate the dead bodies. Washerwomen wash the clothes here and children bathe. Old, dried flowers are also dropped into the river.
(iii) (a) dried — wilted.
(b) emerges — protrudes.
