Name: chaa(n)der gaaye chaa(n)d
Duration: 7 min 16 s
Channel: Lalon Phokir
Description: This song poses a series of riddles: two moons touching, the daughter being the mother's mother and the son who dies at the mother's touch. Lalon Phokir says at the end, "If you don't know what this means, you weren't meant to be a Phokir!"

chaa(n)der gaaye chaa(n)d

Jewel in the Man

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This song poses a series of riddles: two moons touching, the daughter being the mother's mother and the son who dies at the mother's touch. Lalon Phokir says at the end, "If you don't know what this means, you weren't meant to be a Phokir!"

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Jewel in the Man

11 songs of Lalon Phokir, the 19th century Bengali Sufi saint and song-maker, whose fame stretches across all political and religious borders. This album is con

Song Info

Genre

World • Traditional Asian

Charts

Peak #42

Peak in subgenre #2

Author

Lalon Phokir

Rights

Sudipto Chatterjee

Uploaded

September 18, 2009

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MP3 6.7 MB • 128 kbps • 7:16

Story behind the song

Some scholars believe that this song is not by Lalon Phokir. But internal evidence and similar songs written by Lalon's disciples in response to the questions posed in the song, confirm Lalon's authorship.

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