In the Indian marriage
system, the bride leaves her parental house and goes to her husband’s house. We
all are aware of that moment of departure as well as the deep pain of
separation in the family and environment. Being a male one cannot fathom that
highly sentimental atmosphere. A girl who is under the strict control of the
mother, father, brother and entire community and never allowed to go alone even
fifty yards from the house, has in this moment to say goodbye to her
birthplace. Even Maharshi Kanva, wept bitterly when Shakuntala left the hutment
and went out with Dushyant. Kalidas in Abhigyanshakuntalam writes that when
even a recluse is sentimentally shattered, what about the worldly parents.
This sad scene deserves
a sad song. In Mithila, such songs are traditionally famous as SAMDAUN. When
good-throated ladies, marking this pathos,sing such songs in orchestra,
everybody starts weeping. Even the eyes of the cruel become tearful. A couple
of days back I listened to Prasoon Joshi in the Vigyan Bhavan, who also recited
a similar moving poem, giving expression to a departing bride: ‘babul more itni
araj suni lijo’ which virtually compelled me to weep. On return to my
residence, moved by that theme, I penned down the following lines in Maithili:
Kaya kera paat jakan, sihari rahal achhi anukhan,
Jee uchat bha matha
hammar, ghoomi jaet achhi kaukhan,
Chhooti rahal achhi
baba aangan, jae parat pardes,
Bipati ki hoet aar
bisesh?
Since the one will have
problem in reading the entire text in Roman script, I propose to post it on
Facebook by tomorrow.
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