The woman entered the ditch at Jamunaha of Nepaljung and will stay there for 90 days, a local newspaper said. Before stepping into the ditch, she said that she will meditate for world peace and equality and asked the authorities not to take her out forcefully.

"Human Right activists, foreign delegates and the government may ask you to take me out but you would deprive me of achieving knowledge if you yield to their pressure," she told the Chief Administrator of Banke district.

She would be the first Nepali to mediate underground for three months without food and survive only on water, the organisers said.

A small opening above the ditch will help her to breathe and a bed and a blanket have also been placed inside the ditch, they said.

A large number of people have already started gathering at the place and donating money to show their faith. Last year, a Nepali boy Ram Bahadur Bamjan has also attracted a large number of crowd and attention of national and international media when meditated in a deep forest in Bara district near Nepal India border.