Over 4,000 villagers attend monkey’s funeral fest in Madhya Pradesh

4,000 villagers attend monkey’s funeral fean an unusual event, more than 4,000 people on Wednesday attended a ‘mrityu bhoj (funeral feast)’ for a monkey in a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district. 

Villagers believed the monkey to be an incarnation of Lord Hanuman, and performed all rituals typically reserved for human family members.

Twelve days ago, the monkey died after being electrocuted by a high-tension power line. 

On November 8, villagers decorated the monkey’s



bier and organised a funeral procession accompanied by a DJ, with the entire village participating. The monkey was later cremated at Shanti Dham, following traditional Hindu rites.st in Madhya Pradesh

After eleven days, villagers, including the village Patel, Biram Singh Sondhiya, travelled to Ujjain to immerse the ashes in the Shipra River.

Priests performed the rituals, and the monkey was treated symbolically as a family member, with even the shaving of the “beard” and the traditional eleventh-day ceremony being observed.