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Magadh · Middle & Lower Gangetic Plain

लोकगीत

Chhath geetMagahi and Bhojpuri

Addressed to the setting and rising sun and to Chhathi Maiya. Sung on the walk to the water, at the ghat, and through the night vigil, by families who have often travelled a thousand kilometres to be there.

कब गाया जाता है: Chhath, Kartik and Chaitra.

Ropni geetMagahi

Work, rain, and the absent husband, sung antiphonally by women standing in flooded fields — the metre follows the movement of the planting.

कब गाया जाता है: Paddy transplanting.

SoharMagahi

Blessing and congratulation, sung by the women of the household and neighbourhood.

कब गाया जाता है: After a birth.

PachraMagahi

Invocation of the village goddess, sung to summon possession in the medium.

कब गाया जाता है: Goddess shrine gatherings.

BarahmasaMagahi

The twelve months of a woman's year, each with its own weather, work and longing — a form shared across the eastern plain.

कब गाया जाता है: Year-round.

Nirgun bhajanMagahi and Hindi

Songs of the formless divine, in the Kabir tradition, sung at cremations and at all-night vigils — the region's most sober repertoire.

कब गाया जाता है: Death rites and night gatherings.

Jhumar and jhumtaMagahi

Love, work and the season, sung in circling dance form and shared with the Jharkhand plateau.

कब गाया जाता है: Monsoon and harvest.

Magadh के लोकगीत — किस बारे में हैं, कौन गाता है और कब। (7)