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Meitei Sankirtan (Meitei: Meitei Nat Sankirtan), also known as Meitei Sankirtana (Meitei: Meitei Nat Sankirtana) or Manipuri Sankirtan (Meitei: Nat Sonkirton) or Manipuri Sankirtana (Meitei: Nat Sonkirton), is a Meitei cultural form of performing art involving ritual singing, drumming and dancing performed in the temples and domestic spaces in Manipur in India.
Meitei Sankirtana (under the name of "Sankirtana, ritual singing, drumming and dancing of Manipur"), one of the most remarkable cultural heritage of the Meitei civilization, [10] [11] [12] was formally recognized as a UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage, declared in the eighth session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee in Baku, Azerbaijan, in December 2013.
Ougri (Meitei: ꯑꯧꯒ꯭ꯔꯤ), an Old Manipuri ritual song, was composed during the 1st century CE, and was sung mostly for the "destruction and ruination and also for prosperity" of the ancient Meitei society. [4] [5]: 13-14 Many scholars commented that this musical work existed even before the beginning of the Common Era. [4]: 329
Vaishnavism in Manipur has extended history. While there are records in the Puranas as to account of the pre-historic forms of Vaishnavism or Bhagavatism in the area of present state, the modern history of Vaishnava practices in Manipur started with a king of the Shan Kingdom of Pong gifting a murti of the Sudarshana Chakra (the celestial discus of Vishnu or Krishna) to Kyamaba, king of ...
It is a ritual enactment of the creation myth. It mirrors the entire culture of Manipur and depicts the close affinities between the hill and plain people. It is a combination of religious recitations, traditional music and dance, traditional social values and ancient cultural aspects. [5]
Meitei Hindus or Manipuri Hindus are adherents of Hinduism and are native to Manipur kingdom and the South East Asian regions. Meitei Hindus speak Meitei language ( Manipuri language ), which belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and adhere to the Vaishnava section of their religion, Hinduism .
Manipur is a region of North-East India.Some varieties of folk music from the area include the rural love songs Khullang Eshei, the rhythmic Lai Haraoba eshei, which contain lyrics with veiled references to erotic mysticism and pena eshei, which is accompanied by a pena, an instrument made from a bamboo rod and the shell of a gourd or coconut.
Manipuri dance, also referred to as the Manipuri Raas Leela (Meitei: Jagoi Raas/Raas Jagoi [1] [2] [3]), is a jagoi and is one of the major Indian classical dance forms, originating from the state of Manipur. [7] [8] It is one of the greatest cultural achievements of the traditional Vaishnavism adhering Meitei people of Manipur. [9]