Prateek Pattanaik
1 min readMay 13, 2017

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The Dahuka Gita tradition of Puri was one such. In the Jagannatha Temple during the Ratha Jatra, there is a paticular servant called the Dāhuka, Dāka (Bengali Daak) being ‘to call.’ The Dahuka used to sing crude, particularly bawdy songs that would excite the public and in a frenzy of excitement, the chariots would be pulled. Some of these songs can be very vulgar, remnants of Sahajayana. Unsurprisingly, they too, like the Charyas, have another layer of hidden meaning. This rich tradition was banned in 1996 following a series of arguments by modern-day intellectuals on how these were ‘dirty’ and ‘unsuitable to be spoken in front of minors and women and public.’

This line is one of the traditional bolis.

Maa Mariā Kanhu Bhaila Kabāli

The basic idea is the same- to shock and to convey ideas selectively to those who have the ability to respond in the same Sahaja thought.

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