- @Amrapali #txt-anno http://www.goatourism.gov.in/culture/folk-dances/116-jagar {u'ranges': u'[{"start":"/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/table[2]/tbody[1]/tr[1]/td[1]/p[1]","startOffset":2,"end":"/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/table[2]/tbody[1]/tr[1]/td[1]/p[1]","endOffset":2009}]', u'quote': u"The jagar is a kind of dance drama based on no continuous plot or narrative. Among The best presentation of this form is at the village of Siolim in Bardez where they have a traditional jagar.\n\tIt is presently jointly by the Hindus and Christians to the deity called Jagaryo which has a spot dedicated to it: a small, dome shaped shrine under a peepal tree, with no icon or image in it.\n\tHindus vow offerings of oil to jagaryo; Christians, of candles. Every house sends offerings of fow (pressed rice) with the prayer that the deity may protect the village from the river water.\n\tLong ago, the Bardez region had twelve such jagars. About a hundred and twenty five years ago the Portuguese government of the day banned them. Subsequently the village of Siolim started facing many natural calamities and, without distinction of religion, they felt the calamities were due to the stoppage of the jagars. With the meditation of the Church and some priests the jagar was resumed.\n\tThe jagar of Siolim is performed on the first Monday of Christmas. The first naman (salutation to and invocation of presiding deities) of the jagar takes place at the mand, the appointed consecrated space.\n\tThe characters that appear to sing and dance in succession in the jagar are called Bharbharaichya, Said, Firangi-raja, mali (gardener), malani (his wife), mahar (a man of the caste of that name), his wife and their son.\n\tThe origin and the meaning of the first three are not known. The succession of dances and songs by these characters occupies much of the night. At the end of the jagar the Mahar's wife goes from house to house. Offerings of sanna (a steamed rice preparation rather like a idli), roasted gram and feni, a kind of local wine, are kept ready for her to receive on behalf of the deity and are handed over with a namaskar.\n\tThe people of the village keep up the festival as a matter of a religious feeling and custom. It is their faith that doing this averts natural calamities and quarrels among themselves.", u'permissions': {u'read': u'[]', u'admin': u'[]', u'update': u'[]', u'delete': u'[]'}, u'text': u'Religious folk dance', u'tags': u'["Goa","Jagar-folk-dance"]'} created: Mon, 16 Feb 2015, 04:54 AM UTC