The Bodo community has many folk dances to boast. Among them the best and the most attractive is the Bagurumba dance. This is mainly a formation dance with slow steps and outstretched hands. About a score of girls dressed in colourful attire perform this dance to the accompaniment of Bodo traditional musical instruments.
A tourist in Assam can see this dance in the Bodo inhabited areas of Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Nalbari, Darrang and Sonitpur districts. It is usually practiced during Baisagu, a festival of the Bodos in the Bishuba Sankranti or mid-April. The Bagurumba dance is also called “butterfly dance” because this attractive folk dance of the Bodo tribe of Assam resembles the movement of birds and butterflies.
“Jath nongabwla (जाथ नोेंङाबोला )
Cool nongabwla (खुल नोेंङाबोला )
tabwrwm homnanwi- (थाबोरोम हमनानै )
bamnanwi lagwomwnka ( बामनानै लागोमोनखा )
hai lwgw lagwomwnka” ( हाय लोगो लागोमोनखा )
these lines indicate that, if we are not really jath and khul, they might be taken us whenever they want, but we are very much jath and cool so nobody can catch or carry us- it’s a confidential song of Boro women. They thought that, lose character’s women goes to bad practices and if someone comes to catch her, she never protects or restrict them. So we are not that type of women, we are jath and cool.
“Turi barinilai daosen ( थुरि बारिनिलाय दाउसेन )
jwngni lagwalwi dajen” ( जोंनि लागोआलाय दा जेन )
(kobam gwrwbhwnai) the meaning of this line is- we should not lose / no failure. We must won any games always. It’s a confidential song of boro women.
Source: Wikipedia & GoA
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