According to the Kirat myths, during the civilization of human kind in the earth the Creator God Tageraningwabhu Mang (ཏ་གེ་ར་ནིང་ཝ་བྷུ་མང་) as supreme God manifested in the form of Theba Mang (ཐེ་བ་མང་) fatherly powered God and introduced Tagawa (male dress) and also manifested in the form of Yuma Mang (ཡུ་མ་མང་) motherly powered God and introduced Mekhli (མེཁ་ལི) female dress which is to protect the human beings from coldness, safety for any effects and to protect the modesty and humiliation. (Theba Mundhum Page – 185 for Tagawa; Yuma Mundhum page – 171-172 for Mekhli).

As per the Mundhum, the Priests are to be truthful, faithful, devoted to the dharma and should purify their mind beneath the heart and to show the appearance by costume wearing White Dress from the time immemorial which symbolize the purity, cleanliness, patience and trustworthy. The Kirat Priests (Mangsewasaba) wear the white dresses known as Tagawa with Takhuk (ཏ་ཁུཀ), Paga(པ་ག) and white belt Yumfoyi ( མ་ཕོའི) for male and Mekhli with Pothang (པོ་ཐང) and Yellow belt for female. Since the ancient period of time, Kirat Shaman Priests who recites the Mundhum orally; Samba, Yeba, Phedangba and Mangpa wear white dresses with various birds feather patched on the turban. The Kirat Priest who performs the religious functions by reciting the holy book (Samjik Mundhum) there is bit differences in dressing; the Priests Mangsewasaba wears pure and simple white dress with Tagawa and Hembari, and Mekhli and Hembari(white-shawl) respectively. Samdangenwarumsaba(བསམ་དང་གེན་ཝ་རུམ་ས་བ) /Samdangenwarumsama (བསམ་དང་གེན་ཝ་རུམ་ས་མ) male & female Senior Priests wears the same Tagawa and Mekhli respectively and wear a tri-colour White, Red and Yellow stripped belt binding from right shoulder to left waist called Pangfoy(པང་ཕོའི) signifies peace, strength, and unity and indicating the designation, and the Hembari upon it which is also worn by Kirat profounder Mahaguru Falgunanda and the followers continuously practices the system. Fortunately the Kirat priest wears the Hembari which represents the similarity on costume and custom of our Nation. Takhuk (ཏ་ཁུཀ) & Paga(པ་ག) cap with strip and Pothang(པོ་ཐང) napkin to cover ladies head are worn during the religious functions only.