The present day Majhi narrate multiple stories and beliefs about the origin of their ethnic group.

[8] Majhi people live alongside the rivers of Nepal with ancestral occupations of boating and fishing.

[10] For generations, the Majhi community has played a pivotal role in facilitating transportation and trade, ferrying people, goods, and livestock across Nepal's rivers.

There’s similarity in custom and occupation of Bote or Majhi people though they live in different places of Nepal.

Living besides river, fishing boating, looking for gold, farming and rearing animals are the main occupations of these people.