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Title:This is a ritual asikabara in the Chintang Devi
asika_bara
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Birsana
Ram
Sumitra
Ichchha Purna
Contributor (speaker):Dal
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2005-04-16
Description:This is one of the rituals among Chintang people. This is called Asikabara, a blessing ceremony. In this ritual, child or man or woman are entered the temple of Chhintang Devi and parents and knowledgeable elders worship the goddess for blessing the child, man, woman. This must be done once during life.
This is the ritual called asikabara, a blessing ceremony. This is an important ritual among Chintang Rai whether they belong to Chintang clan or not. This ritual is performed once during his/her life. This must be performed in and around the temple of Chintang Devi.
In this ritual, they use both Nepali and Chintang languge.
In this recording, collecter (IR) was informed in that ritual and he recorded the ritual. There are other actors. One is wattong who is Dowa maila, Dal Bahadur Puma. The other one is Birsna Nakchong Rai who is a newly born child. Her father is Ram Prasad Rai and mother is Sumitra Rai
She is newly child and the Chintang Devi was worshiped for her blessing.
He is a Chintang elder from the Puma Rai but he speaks the Chintang language. Now, he cannot speak any language perfectly but he was called as the knowledgeable elder.
He is father of Birsana. He organized this asikabara, a blessing ceremony for her newly born child. It is performed once during anyone's life.
She is wife of Ram Prasad Rai and who was the host of this ritual, asikhabara, blessing ceremony.
Ichchha Purna is the RA for the study of ethnography of Chintang
Format:Mini DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-8606-5
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

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Citation: Birsana; Dal (speaker); Ram; Sumitra; Ichchha Purna. 2005-04-16. 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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