Study of Athara Magarat Songs (Jyo Ma Re, Sairayala and Sorathy) and Their Literary and Cultural Values

Abstract

Traditional oral songs are a part of the culture of Nepalese indigenous people, especially Athara Magarat Magar inhabiting in Rolpa district. The people less literate or illiterate at all express their feelings, emotions, sentiments and their intimacy through songs inherent or composed by themselves orally on the basis of traditionally perceived modality. These orally transmitted songs inherently include their traditional values, cultural features and their identity as a whole. In a sense these oral songs Jyo Ma Re, Sairayala, and Sorathy are mirror of the life and a slice of identity of Athara Magarat Magar living in Rolpa district, a remote part of mid -western region of Nepal.