Dance-Songs of Professional classes in Uttarakhand

Classification of folk dance song of Uttarakhand Garhwal – 8

["गढ़वाल के लोक नृत्य गीत" डॉ शिवानन्द नौटियाल द्वारा लिखी हुई एक महत्वपूर्ण पुस्तक है। इसी पुस्तक की समीक्षा श्री भीष्म कुकरेती जी द्वारा की गयी है। इस पुस्तक समीक्षा को एक श्रंखला के रूप में प्रकाशित कर रहे हैं। इस श्रंखला के माध्यम से आप उत्तराखंड-गढ़वाल के सांस्क़ृतिक परिदृशय से भी परिचित होंगे।- प्रबंधक]

पहला भाग, दूसरा भाग, तीसरा भाग , चौथा भाग, पांचवां भाग, छ्ठा भाग, सातवां भाग

Vyavsayik Jatiyon ke Lok Nritya geet (Dance-Songs of Professional classes)

Auji, Badis-badan, Mirasi, Hudkya and Dhakki come under professional dancers and singers of Uttarakhand-Garhwal. Dr. Shivanand Nautiyal described in full details about following dance-songs performed by professional classes of Uttarakhand-Garhwal:

Chaiti Song :Chait (13^th March to 13 April) is called the month of dance ( month of dance and song). The girls sing this song :

Phuldei phuldei ful sangrand , sufal karo nayo varsa tumko bhagwan

Chaiti Nritya Geet: Auji perform the dance-song sequences from morning till evening and evertime the sequence is different according to time i.e. dance and song will be different for morning, before noon,noon, afternoon and evening.

Subero Naubat or Prabhati : Auji praises their masters by singing and playing drums . The songs are of praising subject as :

Vo danyun man ko danee raja bali danee ,

Vo danyon ma ko danee raja batand

Shyam Kalyani: This song is sung by Auji with playing drums before crowd of villagers as :

Jhai mata sakal bhavani

Jal thal udapi bhavani jhai mata safal bhavani

Chaiti Pasara: The auji go in morning to their Thakur and praise with song, dance and along with Badis or Jhumaria.

Ghiyan ka Chaiti Pasara or Bada Mangan: When a girl deliver first child in her saural, the Auji from girl side come and sing the prayer for the health and prosperity of the child playing drums.

Dholnrityageet: Dholnritya geet is extract of Dhol Sagar (the principles of Drumming) Dholnrityageet is very auspicious for Auji and only trained dancers could take part in dance. The sabad (song) is as :

Dhol Mahesh ne dhalya,

parvati ne batolya,

Vishnu ne gadaya, chari jug Madhya

Brabh upri kandoti

Kulachar: In Kulachar the auji or badis sing the history of families of Thakur or master.

Manglachar, manglachar, bada sarkar, bada darbar

Raja muhalli, raja mussadi, jug jug jeye rajdhiraj

Lang Nrityageet: Lang game is played by Badis in each village after twelve years and in the month of Chait. The song for Lang-game is as:

Khand baje ho khand baje, shiv parvati ko khand baje

Panchnam devtun ko khand baje, gaun ki bhagwati ko khand baje

Hudkya Nrityageet: Hudkya is a professional class in Uttarakhand-Kumaun and Uttarakhand-Garhwal and they used to dance and sing before king, ministers, landlords and now before wealthy persons.

In history, they were the source of self esteem enhancers for armed forces in battle fields or off battle fields. Now, they sing folk songs related to bravery of brave people or contemporary subjects as Badis.

Shiv Parvati Nritya Geet: Badis perform Shiv Parvati dance-songs. The songs are related to kind, beneficial hearts of Shiva and Parvati as :

Vai dala man chhaya madec parvati,

nidra ma madev padya cha

Parvati bijyan chha ,

Sampu Nritya Geet: This dance looks like snake and performed by devotees of Ngarja. The wordings of song are as :

Dyul nagelo nachali bal dyul nagelo

Pitasini ka dhora bal nachlo, dyul nagelo nachalo

Thali Nritya Geet: The Thali dance is very exciting dance and song. The dancers dance on the edges of deep plate of alloy metal (kansi)

Deepak Nrityageet: this is prayer performed by lighting earthern lamps by women in evening. In past, Deepak dance-song was performed on arrivals of winning army troops.

The song is as;

Jay jayo shubh ghadi ayee jay jayo shubh din ayo

Sui Nrityageet: This dance-song is a specific and exciting dance performed by specialist class i.e Badans and dancer tries to pick up needle from ground by tongue and teeth. The songs do not have any relation with picking needle by teeth and tongue by the dancer and an example of song is :

He lathyali dadu kaiki bauran chhe?

, dhan si dhupli pani si payali

Kela si galkhi naunsi gundaki,

diva si jot kaiki baurani che?

Badi Badan or Natnati Nrityageet: Badis-badan or Mirasi-Mirasan perform dance in couple and sing too. The song may be of any kind from folk to contemporary as :

Chilmo ko peech

He mero moti ai gayo bharin saree beech

Radhakhandi Geet: The badis-badan or mirasi-mirasan dance -sing on the subject of love between Krishna and Radha

Krishna– tera khutun ka Ghaghara Baja, chhanna chhanna, chhan -chhan

Tu bhali che banda radhachhnana , chhanna, chhan-chhan

Radha–tu bado haisyo kaniya, chhanan , chhanna, chhan-chhan

Bhali biraj denda hat ki bansuli…chhna-chhan

Ras-Sarun nritygeet: The singing and playing drums is performed by Aujis and females-males dance on the music of drumming.

Awakening Songs; Depending upon the time, the professional class create awakening songs as songs of freedom fight, China war , Pakistan war etc.

Kasmir asam ainchu upsi ar ladakh

Chinyun hamala kari ainsun ka barakh

Book Details
Uttarakhand-Garhwal Ke Lok Nritya Geet
By Dr Shiva Nand Nautiyal
Published by :

Hindi Sahitya Sammelan
Prayag, Allahabad, Uttarapradesh, India
Year of Publication : 1981