Former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa was cremated with state honours at Pashupati Aryaghat on Friday.
Thapa's son Sunil Bahadur Thapa, who is Minister of Commerce and Supplies, lit his father's funeral pyre on the Bagmati river bank.
Thapa's dead body was kept at his Maligaun residence and Dasharath stadium for last tributes. Leaders of various political parties had reached Maligaun to pay their last respect to Thapa.
Prime Minister Sushil Koirala had wrapped Thapa's dead body with a national flag. Talking to journalists, Koirala praised Thapa for supporting democracy during any political movement. "He favoured reforms even during the Panchayat system," he said.
The government declared a holiday on Friday to mourn Thapa's death.
Thapa had passed away at Medanta Hospital in New Delhi, India on Wednesday night following a surgery. He was 88. His dead body was brought to Kathmandu by a special aircraft of the Indian Air Force.
Thapa became Prime Minister a record five times serving three kings.
In 1959, Thapa was handpicked by King Mahendra to chair his advisory council. In 1963, two years after sending Nepal's first elected Prime Minister BP Koirala to jail, Mahendra chose Thapa as Prime Minister.
Thapa remained at the center of Nepal's politics ever since then and was active till the end as a decisive political payer.
After 1990, he formed Rashtriya Prajatanra Party and embraced multi-party democracy. After 2006, he chaired some sessions of Constituent Assembly (CA) that was primarily formed to turn Nepal into a federal republic democracy.