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Acknowledgments
Chapter one
Introduction
Delivery of the Songs
Prosody and Rhyme
Language
The Musical Instruments
The Songs and their Function
The Literary Background
Religion and Social Conditions
Chapter two
The Songs and Translations
1 Sohar i [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
Wishes fulfilled through religious observances
2 Sohar ii [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
Śiva and Pārvatī
3 Sohar iii [Paramaribo, 1967]
Gaṅgā as the goddess of fertility
thanksgiving to Gaṅgā
4 Sohar iv [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
Yaśodā offers her child to Devakī
5 Sohar v [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
(I) Pregnancy-inducing drug
(II) An astrological forecast of Rāma's future
(III) Against a woman's infertility
6 Sohar Ulārā i [Paramaribo, 1962]
Duties of some castes and professions
7 Sohar Ulārā ii [Paramaribo, 1962]
Celebrations at Kṛṣṇa's birth
8 Sohar Ulārā iii [Kwatta, 1962]
Sītā's lament
9 Sohar Ulārā iv [Paramaribo, 1962]
Anticipating the child's growth
10 Sohar Caṭnī [van Drimmelanpolder, Nickerie, 1967]
11 Mūṛan i [Paramaribo, 1967]
The right conditions for the ceremony
12 Mūṛan ii [Uitvlugt, 1962]
13 Janëū i [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
14 Janëū ii [Corentijnpolder, Nickerie, 1967]
The wedding songs
15 Tilak [Paramaribo, 1967]
Fixing the marriage, the amount of Tilak gift and the dowry.
16 Telvān [Paramaribo, 1967]
17 Mą̄dar-Pūjā [Saramacca, 1962]
18 Maṭkor procession [Clarapolder, Nickerie, 1962]
The procession walking towards the Maṭkor spot
19 Maṭkor i [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
Worship of Rāma (as Śiva?) together with the earth (which is) Pārvatī
20 Maṭkor ii [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
Worship of Śiva and Pārvatī
21 Maṭkor iii [Leiding 8A, 1962]
Remembering the deities
22 Maṭkor iv [Leiding 8A, 1962]
Placing vermilion marks on the cauk remembering Gaurī and Gaṇeśa together with minor deities
23 Māṛo cauk i [Saramacca, 1962]
The cauk of the wedding canopy I
24 Māṛo cauk ii [Uitvlugt, 1962]
The cauk of the wedding canopy II
25 Silpohanā [Paramaribo, 1967]
Calling the spirits
26 Kalsā Goṭhāī [Paramaribo, 1965]
27 Hardī and Cumāvan [Leiding 8A, 1962]
28 Lāvā [Livorno, 1962]
Roasting the Lāvā
29 Imlī Ghǫṭāī [Paramaribo, 1965]
30 Dressing the bridegroom [Uitvlugt, 1962]
31 Barāts departure [Paramaribo, 1965]
Preparations of the wedding party (barāt) for departure to bride's home
32 Nechū [Uitvlugt, 1962]
33 [Uitvlugt, 1962]
Welcoming the barāt
34 Parchan [Paramaribo, 1962]
General marriage songs I
35 [Paramaribo, 1965]
The qualifications of a girl in an arranged marriage
36 General marriage songs II [Paramaribo, 1965]
Śiva's marriage
37 [Leiding 8A, 1962]
Giving away the bride
38 Bhą̄var [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
39 Sindūra-Dāna [Paramaribo, 1967]
(Gālī)
40 Kohbar [Uitvlugt, 1962]
41 Khicṛī Gārī [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
42 Vidāī and Gaunā [Paramaribo, 1965]
(The bride's farewell)
43 The arrival at bridegroom's home [Paramaribo, 1965]
The arrival at bridegroom's home
44 Kaṅgan-sirāī [Paramaribo, 1967]
Death songs
45 Nirgun [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
46 Caubolā [Party from Meerzorg, 1967]
47 Sargun [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
48 Parātī [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
The annual cycle
The songs of the Phagwā festival
49 Phagwā i [Party from Meerzorg, 1967]>
50 Phagwā ii [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
Dhamār
51 Phagwā iii [Party from Meerzorg, 1967]
Cäitā
52 Phagwā iv [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
Rājpūtī
53 Phagwā v [Nieuw Nickerie, van Drimmelanpolder, and party from Meerzorg, 1967]
Kabir
54 Phagwā vi [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
Jogīṛā
55 Kajarī and Sāvan Kā Jhūlā [Ansoe, 1967]
The occasion for a woman's visit to her parental home
56 Kṛṣṇa's cradle [Ansoe, 1962]
57 To gangā [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
As a fearsome force
Other ritual songs
58 Gaṅgā Snāna [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
Call to Gaṅgā-Snāna
59 Marsiyā [Paramaribo, 1967]
60 Jharrā [Paramaribo, 1967]
61 Pacrā i [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
To Durgā
62 Pacrā ii [Ansoe, 1967]
To Pārvatī as Mahāmāyā
63 Pacrā iii [Paramaribo, 1967]
To pārvatī as Śītalā
64 Pacrā iv [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
To Ḍīh
65 Ṭonā (Incantations) [The Hague in the Netherlands, 1966, Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
To brush off the effects of the evil eye from a person
66 Bhajan i [The Hague in the Netherlands, 1966]
67 Bhajan ii [Ansoe, 1962]
On myths and legends
68 The romantic aspect of kṛṣṇa [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
69 Conversation between Sītā and Mandodarī [Ansoe, 1962]
70 On Bali and Viṣṇu in Vāmana incarnation [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
The caste songs and worksongs
71 i. Kųharavā (of the potters) [Parapasi, 1967]
On a religious theme
72 ii. Kaharavā (of the water-carriers) [The Hague in the Netherlands, 1966]
73 iii. Dhobiyā Birahā [Paramaribo, 1967]
74 iv. Bhāṭ (singer and dancer) seeking his payment [Paramaribo, 1967]
75 The tattoo song [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
[Other songs] Titillās
76 Pisaunī [Paramaribo, 1965]
An unwanted pregnancy
Titillā II
77 Pisaunī ii [Paramaribo, 1965]
The suicide of a maltreated daughter-in-law
Titillā III
78 Ropanī and Nirā̈ī [Paramaribo, 1965]
Consequences of an incestuous suggestion
79 Birahās i [The Hague in the Netherlands, party from Meerzorg, and Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
The definition of a Birahā
80 Birahās ii [Various sources]
Some Sumirans
81 Birahās iii [Paramaribo, 1962]
The mother goddess in the drum
82 Birahās iv [Saramacca, 1962]
Competition; riddles: the year as a cow
83 Birahās v [Saramacca, 1962; party from Meerzorg, 1967]
Alcārī: Kṛṣṇa as Rāma's guest
84 Birahās vi [Paramaribo, 1965]
Alcārī: the woman with a roving eye avoiding the Gaunā
85 Birahās vii [Paramaribo, 1965]
Alcārī: water as Kālī. a woman praying for her husband's death
86 Birahās viii [Paramaribo, 1962]
Alcārī: the penalties for a gambling husband
87 Birahās ix [Livorno, 1962]
Long Birahā: Jaṭāyu attempts to rescue Sītā
88 Birahās x [Leiding 8A, 1962]
Long Birahā: Kṛṣṇa's adventure into Pātāla; an Ahīr narrative
89 Birahās xi [Various Sources]
Finale (Jācanī or Bisarjan)
90 Birahās xii [Party from Meerzorg, 1967]
Finale (introducing the composer)
91 Rasiyā [Nieuw Nickerie, 1967]
92 Nakaṭā [Paramaribo, 1962]
93 Ulārā (general) [Paramaribo, 1962]
94 Caṭnī (general) [Paramaribo, 1962]
95 Invitation [Saramacca, 1962]
Modern socio-political compositions I
96 Modern i [Paramaribo, 1962]
On India
97 Modern ii [Paramaribo, 1967]
1. On Indian migrations because of caste oppressions
2. Reactions to Surinam
98 Modern iii [Ansoe, 1967]
On Surinam politics
99 Modern iv [Ansoe, 1967]
A Patriotic Birahā on Surinam geography
100 Modern v [Ansoe, 1967]
On Surinam Indian community (economic history)
Bibliography
[Indices]
Word index
Index of songs
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