Dekho Mai awato - Borgeet By Mandira Lahiri & Mitali De

Dekho Mai from the album Vaishnava ,a collection of Borgeet Composer - Mahapurush Madhavdev Singer - Mandira Lahiri & Mitali De Khol - Paban Bordoloi Gabinda Mahanta Pabitra Bhagawati Flute - Bubai Nandi Sarinda - Prashanta Kumar Choudhury Rabab - Dhanjit Sharma Cymbal - Giren kalita Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankardeva (1449-1568) Môhapurux Srimôntô. Xônkôrdev), saint-scholar, playwright, social-religious reformer, is a colossal figure in the cultural and religious history of Assam, India created the backbone of Assamese society and culture around 500 years back. This great leader of Hindu Vaishnav movement was born in Bordowa, Nagaon in 1449 AD. All his creations were Vishanav religion oriented and one of them is the 'Holy Songs', which are known as 'Borgeet (Bargit or Bargeet)' till date in Assam. He wrote around 240 Borgeets and put them all together in a book. Unfortunately that book was burnt in some wildfire and he gave up creating borgeet any more. Sankardeva's truly capable disciple Srimanta Madhabdeva was no less scholar and talented than the Great Sankardeva. Madhabdeva took the trend of Borgeet forward and wrote around 157 songs. He added 34 Borgeets of Sankardeva along with his compositions and put them together in a new book of Borgeet (Bargeet). These Borgeets still very much alive in the current Assamese society, in the Satras and Naamgharas. Almost all Borgeets were written in the Brajavali Language. Both the Mahapurusha accepted this language as the base of their bhakti movement. Apart of Assamese influence, Brajavali has influnce of Sankskrit, Maithili, etc languages popular in other parts of India during the Bhakti movement. The principles of Vashnavism and also life of Lord Shree Krishna, Rama are depicted in a very simple manner in these Borgeets. The lyrics don't have an insight to the love-romance activities of Bhagwan (God) Shree Krishna. Instead the songs are fully devoted to the religious and spiritual aspects of God's life, Apart from the simple spiritual lyrics, the Borgeet are bound to very melodious classical music, These are close to Hindustani Classical music, but has it's own signature, Borgeet (Bargeet) follows various Ragas like any other Hindu classical music.