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Title:The worship of the dahalung
pani_dahalung
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Ichchha Purna
Dambar
Contributor (speaker):Bhakta Bir
Ban Bir
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2006-04-08
Description:Panimagne is an importanat ritual and is celebrated two days. The Dahalung worship is one of them and it is worshipped first day. It is worshipped after the worship Debi. The Dahalung is located in near Jalpa debi. There is one small pond with tap. It is called the Dahalung. It is worshipped in major ritual which is three times in each year.
It is the worship of the Dahalung. It is worshipped three times in each year on the occasion of the Baisakhe Purne, Bhadaure Purne and Panimagne. The Dahalung is worshipped in near a small pond with flowing a tap. It is worshipped after the worship of Chintang debi. In this worship, priest is Dambar Bahadura, who is a regular priest of the Chintang Devi and a person who chants the mundum is Chambak kancha(BBR)
This is a chant in the ritual language used by Chintang ritual experts. It is different from ordinary language so a few knowledgeable elders canspeak and understand partly. Its basic character is binomial.
There are a numbers of actors because it is a ritual ceremony. In ritual ceremony, knowledgeable elders and priest must be presence. In this worship, priest named Dambar Bahadur Nakchong Rai, wattongs named Ban Bir Tuprihang and Bhakta Bir Tuprihang are major actors.
Ichchha Purna is the RA for the study of ethnography of Chintang
He is member of the Tuprihang clan. Like his younger brother BBR he is a Chambak, i.e. a tribal shaman, who goes into trance during certain occasion.
He is only one priest in Jalpa debi, a holy goddess among east Nepal. It is shifted to generation to generation. It is believed that it is running in 17th generation.
He is member of the Tuprihang clan. Like his elder brother BhB he is a Chambak, i.e. a tribal shaman, who goes into trance during certain occasion.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg1
video/x-mpeg2
text/x-toolbox-text
Mini-DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-2C84-1
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Ritual texts; Religious texts
Invocation
Unspecified
Nepali (macrolanguage)
Nepali
Chhintange language
Chintang
Subject (ISO639):nep
ctn
Type:audio
video

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Citation: Ichchha Purna; Bhakta Bir (speaker); Dambar; Ban Bir (speaker). 2006-04-08. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_ctn iso639_nep

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Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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