Daahaka Pani Nayo || Madwa Song Adapted || A Sanskruti Kendra Sundargarh Presentation

Daahaka Pani Nayo || Madwa Song Adapted || A Sanskruti Kendra Sundargarh Presentation
This is a Madwa song, meaning a song that is sung in the madwa or tribal marriage pandal that is erected on the occasion of any marriage rite related ceremonies. On the occasion of any marriage ceremony, men and women sitting in the pandal automatically divide themselves in two groups as they may be sitting, and start singing this and other madwa songs. These songs also are known as Durang or Nayo songs. They are sung while sitting in the madwa; they are normally never sung standing or in any other posture.
The madwa, durang or nayo songs are sung without the accompaniment of musical or rhythm instruments. Unlike in other musical and dance songs, these songs are just slow and singing oriented, where free modulation or stretching of tune as per the mood is permitted.
Madwa, durang or nayo songs are musically very simple and flowing in such a manner that anybody can sing them without difficulty. The songs are basically a pair of couplets in nature, meaning there are two verses of two lines each. Occasionally, there may be three lines repeating the second line using another word for the most important world of the verse.
The song has two parts - opening verse and the return verse. Thus they form a pair of couplets. Two verses make two statements, and within these two verses all that is to be said is said in full. Since the verses are short, they are loaded with meaning which only insiders of the tribes and some other seasoned minds can fully understand.
This song is sung in a particular system. While one group that starts the songs sings the full opening verse, the other group keeps quiet and learns the lines carefully. Once the first group finishes singing the opening verse, the second group repeats it exactly. After singing the opening verse one or two rounds, the first group sings the return verse while the second group listens to it attentively, and after the first group finishes singing it, the second group sings it exactly the same way as the first group has sung. After one or two rounds of singing the return verse, the first groups sings the opening verse again, and the second group replies in singing. Only then the song is over, it is never stopped in the middle or without singing the opening verse again. Normally one song properly sung takes about 10 to 15 minutes to complete.
Madwa songs cover a wide range of topics related to the tribal life and society, such as - life, culture, faith, family, love, history, myth, suffering, faith and all. They are descriptive, symbolic, philosophic or instructive. They are very deep in meaning. In fact, these songs are the manifestation of the deepest feelings and expressions of tribal life and society.
Since the madwa songs incorporate all aspects of tribal life and society, they are indeed the biggest deposit of tribal wisdom coming down from ages past. They present vivid picture of various aspects of life and society, and as such, they work as real documentation center of the tribal society.
The present song Daahaka Pani Nayo is a simple narrative of a pool of water in the river bed. The words are as follows:
Daahaka pani nayo, daahak pani - 2
Daahak pani nayo jhilimilae re
Dahak pani nayo jhakamakae re.
Mada bhitare kachhua rani - 2
Indiwar raja sange bhet bhelae re - 2
This song is in Sadri language, and its free translation in English would mean the following:
The water in the pool, O mother, the water in the pool
The water in the pool, O mother, shines brightly.
In the cave (inside water) the tortoise queen
Meets the Indwar king.
Here, the opening verse is simple as it describes the shining water in the pool in the river. But, the way the lines are constructed they make very high quality poetry, raising deep poetic sense to understand and enjoy them.
The second verse, however, is very deep. Apparently it speaks of the tortoise queen going to meet the Indwar or eel king. But is that all? Tortoise and eel (river eel) are totems in all the three tribes that sing this song - Oraon, Khadia and Munda.
In Khadia ---- Tortoise is Kullu, and Eel is Indwar and Dungdung
In Oraon ---- Ekka, Minj
In Munda ---- Horo, Indwar etc.
Now when in the song, the Tortoise queen is going to meet the Eel king, is it not a reference to one totemic tribe meeting another on the high level? In that case, it is truly marvellous, that the simple song that is sung in the madwa Daahak Pani Nayo is much more serious, deep, symbolic and meaningful, and in order to understand the full meaning of it, one has to go much deeper into the history or myth of the said tribes.
Though this song is a madwa song, it is presented here as an adaptation song performed in an outdoor location.

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