Kunti Baja Nrity-Geet: A Garhwali Folk Song for Pandau Dance

Garhwali folk Dance Songs, Uttarakhandi Folk Dance- Songs, Himalayan Folk dance-Songs)

                          Bhishm Kukreti

         There are many stories sung in Pandau Nrity geet by Aujees the Dhol-Damau (music instruments) players. One of the stories is very popular about the mother of Pandavas –Kunti in Pandau dance sequences.

       The story here about  Kunti  Baja song is very  sad as in the song,  the story is either about remembering King Pandu, lakshagrih or death of Abhimnayu  .

  The following folk song is about awakening the ‘Pashva’ of Kunti (on whose body the spirit of Kunti enters). The music is very slow ‘Gija-Gijadi’….. The dancer in the form of Kunti spirit, dances very slow and is mostly in pathetic rapture

              कुंती बाजा नृत्य गीत

            प्रगट ह्व़े जान, प्रगट ह्व़े जान

             प्रगट ह्व़े जान , पांच भाई पंडों

              ००० ००० ०००

           प्रगट ह्व़े जान , कुंती माता

            कुंती माता होली पंडो की माता

             ००० ००० ०००

           कोंती माता सूपीनो ह्व़े गए ताछुम ताछुम

           पांडू क सराधु कु चैन्द गैंडो ताछुम ताछुम

            ००० ००० ००००

            ओड़ू आवा नेड़ू मेरा पांच पंडऊँ ताछुम ताछुम

              तुम जावा पंडऊँ गैंडा की खोज ताछुम ताछुम

Source:

1-Puskar Singh Kandari

2-Dr Shiva Nand Nautiyal

Garhwali folk Dance Songs, Uttarakhandi Folk Dance- Songs, Himalayan Folk dance-Songs series to be continued….

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