Haval/Hyali Geet: Oriental Folk Songs depicting Mourning Cry, Sorrowful, Grieved weeping by Mother for Son Death

Folk Songs from Kumaon-Garhwal, Haridwar, Uttarkahnd-302 

(Oriental, Himalayan Folk Song/Traditional Folktales/ Conventional Sayings Series)

                                      By: Bhishma Kukreti

            ‘Hyali’ means the mourning cry or mourning weep.

‘Haval’ means mourning cry or grieved weeping by a mother on her son’s death.  

  कुमाऊं, गढ़वाल ,हरिद्वार के  लोक गीत  -302

  
    गढ़वाली  कुमाऊंनी लोकगीतों में  हावल/ह्यळि   गीत 

(माता की करुणामयी वेदना स्वर )

(संकलन - डा.शिव प्रसाद नैथानी)

(इंटरनेट प्रस्तुती व व्याख्या - भीष्म कुकरेती )


माधो सिंगक  ब्वै वे दुःख 

 बारा ऐन बग्वाळी  माधोसिंग, मेरो माधो नी आयो माधो सिंग
सोळ ऐन सराद माधो सिंग, तेरी वाणी बैराणी माधो सिंग

When one of the great Army chiefs of Garhwal Madho Sing was dead in a war his mother never believed that he is dead. For twelve years, on every Deepawali (Bagwal) she believes that Madho Singh would come to home.

     लीला नन्दक ब्वै  रूण 


मेरो लीला नन्द रे औ बाबा घौर,
मेरो लीला नन्द रे औ बाबा घौर
तौली धारा टांको रे तौली धारा टांको
अमेली का बौण रे क्याको होलो रांको,

This Oriental folk song of Garhwal is from Rath region of Garhwal. A boy went with a hunter party went to hunt porcupine. The boy went inside burrow of porcupine and started playing flute. He died there.

The above oriental folk song from Rath Gath song is mother’s cry for her son death.

The said oriental folk song creates sadness among audience.

हरू सेम गीत में माँ का दारुण रोना 


तू कैले दुसाई इजा , एक्ला जंगल हो
क्य लेख बजै त्वे ले उदासी बाँसुली हो

             This oriental folk song is about fairies took boy with them and his mother cries on the situation. When women audience listen this oriental folk song they start weeping.

Copyright (Interpretation) @ Bhishma Kukreti, bckukreti@gmail.com 26/7/2013

Folk Songs from Kumaon-Garhwal-Haridwar (Uttarakhand) to be continued…303 

                   

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*Dr Shiv Prasad Naithani, 2011, Uttrakhand Lok Sanskriti aur Sahitya, Udgata, page 119-126

(टिहरी से गढवाली जागर, लोक गीत;  उत्तरकाशी से गढवाली जागर, लोक गीत; पौड़ी से गढवाली जागर, लोक गीत; चमोली -रुद्रप्रयाग से गढवाली जागर,लोक गीत; नैनीताल से कुमाउनी जागर,लोक गीत; अल्मोड़ासे कुमाउनी जागर,लोक गीत;पिथोरागढ़ -बागेश्वर से कुमाउनी जागर,लोक गीत;चम्पावत , उधम सिंह नगरसे कुमाउनी जागर,लोक गीत;उत्तराखंडी जागर,लोक गीत;,  हरिद्वार से जागर,लोक गीत;,मध्य हिमालयीजागर,लोक गीत;, हिमालयी जागर,लोक गीत;उत्तर भारितीय जागर,लोक गीत; भारतीय जागर,लोक गीत;एशियाई जागर,लोक गीत श्रृंखला,

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