The glory of joriĪccording to Bhai Baldeep Singh, one of the two well-known exponents of Punjab pakahwaj, if the migration of rababis to Pakistan post-1947 caused the eviction of the rabab from the Darbar Sahib in Amritsar, then the disappearance of pakhawaj or jori had to do with the changing style of kirtan. In a kabit (a form of Punjabi oral poetry) by Bhai Gurdas, the first interpreter of Gurbani, writes about the popularity of the pakhawaj in the 16th century: “Ghar-ghar baba gaviyai, vajjan tāla mridañg rabābā” or, each home has become a resting place where kirtans are sung to the accompaniment of rababs and mridangs (another kind of percussion instrument). Bhai Mardana, who accompanied Guru Nanak on all his travels, playing the rabab to the Guru’s compositions, was famously gifted his rabab by Guru Nanak Dev himself. The devotional musical offerings in gurdwaras, sung in dhrupad style, were traditionally rendered to the accompaniment of the rabab, a stringed instrument, and the pakhawaj. Without the accompaniment of the pakhawaj, no Gurbani kirtan would ever have sounded quite the same. But, in fact, the barrel-shaped drum has been played in Punjab since the time of the fifth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Arjan Dev (1563-1606). With the predominance of the tabla as an instrument of percussion in North India, the pakhawaj, or a version of it, has come to be associated as a percussion instrument played primarily in the South. ‘Kaun Banegi Shikharwati’ review: The bar is low but the spirits are high.Fact check: Has crime really reduced in Goa by 101%, as BJP chief JP Nadda claimed?.Why Prashant Kishor’s brand of depoliticised politics stands small chance against BJP-RSS juggernaut.Demand for antibody cocktail soars, clogs hospitals, despite Omicron reducing its effectiveness.Watch: Truck gets stuck on cliff edge, driver says he followed directions on navigation app.Explainer: Is Modi’s government’s 8 lakh income criteria for EWS too lenient?.
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