OugriMeiteilon
An invocatory song of origins sung at the start of the ritual sequence, in an archaic register that ordinary modern Meiteilon does not fully cover.
कब गाया जाता है: Lai Haraoba, and formerly at the opening of court ceremony.
इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
Imphal Valley · Northeast Hill Massif
लोकगीत
KhenchoMeiteilon
A concluding ritual song of the festival cycle, sung with the pena and with fixed responses.
कब गाया जाता है: Lai Haraoba.
Khamba-Thoibi SheirengMeiteilon
The Moirang epic of the poor youth Khamba and the princess Thoibi. Hijam Anganghal's twentieth-century verse recension runs to tens of thousands of lines and is the longest single work in the language.
कब गाया जाता है: Narrated over several nights.
Khongjom ParvaMeiteilon
The battle of Khongjom of 1891, sung to dholak by a standing solo performer. The form was created to carry this one story and then became a genre.
कब गाया जाता है: Public performance, memorial days.
Thabal Chongba songsMeiteilon
Courtship and teasing, sung and now more often played, while a circle of young people dances by moonlight.
कब गाया जाता है: The five nights of Yaoshang.
Khunung EsheiMeiteilon
Village songs — transplanting, fishing, weaving and lullabies. The layer beneath both the temple and the court repertoires, and the one least written down.
कब गाया जाता है: Work, boating, child-minding.
Nata Sankirtana palaMeiteilon and Brajabuli
Krishna devotion sung in a fixed sequence by a standing ensemble with pung and cymbals. Brajabuli, the literary Vaishnav idiom, sits inside a Meiteilon performance — the clearest audible trace of the eighteenth-century religious shift.
कब गाया जाता है: Births, marriages, funerals and temple festivals.
Imphal Valley के लोकगीत — किस बारे में हैं, कौन गाता है और कब। (7)