OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EED9-D

Metadata
Title:		Myth about the Puma Goddess Bal Kanya Autari
		story_autari
		Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:		Arjun Rai
Contributor (speaker):		Gopal Rai
Coverage:		Nepal
Date:		2004-03-21
Description:		Bal Kanya Autari (or Devi), known as Dimahongma in Puma language, is the supreme god in the Puma community. How she came into existence is described in this session.
		The aim of the project is to provide a rich linguistic and ethnographic documentation of two highly endangered but almost totally undocumented languages in eastern Nepal, Chintang and Puma. These languages belong to the Kiranti family of Tibeto-Burman. Chintang is spoken by the Chintang Rai in Chintang Village Development Committee (VDC) of Dhankuta district. Puma is spoken by the Puma Rai in Diplung, Mauwabote and Pauwasera VDCs, to the south of Khotang bazar in Khotang district. Both these districts are situated in the eastern hilly part of the country.http://www.cpdp.uzh.ch
		This session is about the origin of Bal Kanya Devi (Dimahongma). The parents of the child had left her at home alone. She woke up and started to search her parents. Following their way she died when trying to cross a river. In this way she became a deity worshiped by the parents and later the whole community.
		It is used the Puma language in most of the cases. In some situations, it is also used the Bantawa language. Nepali language is also used in some situations.
		GR is the local consultant of the Puma language and culture documentation team.
		Gopal Rai is the student and also a social worker. He has helped the Puma team with different data collection.
		He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
Format:		video/x-mpeg1
		audio/x-wav
		DV
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EED9-D
		CPDP
Publisher:		Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
		University of Leipzig
Subject:		Narrative
		Myth
		Origin of Bal Kanya
		Bantawa language
		Nepali (macrolanguage)
		Nepali
		Puma language
Subject (ISO639):		bap
		nep
		pum
Type:		video
		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EED9-D
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
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Search Info
Citation:		Gopal Rai (speaker); Arjun Rai. 2004-03-21. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms:		area_Asia country_NP iso639_bap iso639_nep iso639_pum
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Nepal
Area:		Asia