Sambodhi 2013 Vol 36

SR No.: 520786
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2013
Total Pages: 328
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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creator grow and expand the folk faith. Here, in Galāleng, the creator Amarajogi included in stanza no.654 that anyone who worships the memorials of hero and satis would be freed from chronic fever. Though, this faith has not been widely accepted and has not resulted into folk faith. The story and the hero have no such qualities required for the upliftment of a human as a folk deity. Bearers of religious epics are not merely professionals. They themselves are devotees and in tribal area they are Sadhu. They depend on their own agriculture works or other sources of maintenance. It is worth to note here that at the end of ritual performance the Lok-Deva, a divine, power, enters into the body of Sadhu or any follower and speaks that he is pleased and forecasts that his blessings would save them from adverse effect, illness and evils. The professional narrator-Singer-performs includes the folk artist such as Jogi, Bharathari, Turi etc. The religious epics connected with religious rituals have more or less a fixed and memorized epic text. As it is a strong belief that no one can change or add in the original text. Contrast to these, epics that were narrated-sung by professionals used remembered .text, and nor memorized one. Most of the chapters of Bharathari-Gopichand-Epic lost its tradition, as it was not a part of any religion or occult. The study in texts shows that there are two types : (a) Mere inscription of whatever was in oral. (b) The title of Pānkhadi, serial numbers to stanza and song given by the
transcriptor. The point to raise and note for the textual inscription is that though the virginity of text is must as a principle, no editor can add or omit his own version in the text. But keeping in mind the Indological method and basic principles of text-editing of written ancient of medieval manuscript, the inscriptor of an oral text must give serial number to each stanza medieval manuscripts, the inscriptor of an oral text must give serial number to each stanza and song. This becomes helpful for advance study. Second point and concerned problem of editing an oral text is that, the text editor has to inscript an oral text as narrated-sung by his selected informant. This is must or basic requirement and accepted method, but the by his selected
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