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Borgeets ((アッサム語:বৰগীত), ''songs celestial'') are a collection of lyrical songs that are set to specific ragas but not necessarily to any tala. These songs, composed by Srimanta Sankardeva and Madhavdeva in the 15th-16th centuries, are used to begin prayer services in monasteries associated with the Ekasarana Dharma; and they also belong to the repertoire of Music of Assam outside the religious context. They are a lyrical strain that express the religious sentiments of the poets reacting to different situations, and differ from other lyrics associated with the Ekasarana Dharma.〔The other forms lyrics are the ''bhatima'' (laudatory odes), ''kirtan- and naam-ghoxa'' (lyrics for congregational singing), ''ankiya geet'' (lyrics set to beats and associated with the ''Ankiya Naat''), etc.〕 Similar songs composed by others are not generally considered borgeets. The first Borgeet was composed by Srimanta Sankardeva during his first pilgrimage at Badrikashram in c1488, which is contemporaneous to the birth of Dhrupad in the court of Man Singh Tomar (1486-1518) of Gwalior. ==Lyrics== The ''borgeets'' are written in the ''pada'' form of verse. The first pada, marked as ''dhrung'',〔''Dhrung'' is likely an abbreviation of ''Dhruva'', the ''dhatu'' named in the Prabandha musical tradition 〕 works as a refrain and is repeated over the course of singing of the succeeding verses. In the last couplet, the name of the poet is generally mentioned. The structure of borgeets is said to model the songs of 8-10th century Charyapada. The first borgeet, ''mana meri rama-caranahi lagu'', was composed by the Sankardeva at Badrikashrama during his first pilgrimage. The language he used for all his borgeets is Brajavali, an artificial Maithili-Assamese mix; though Madhavdeva used Brajavali very sparingly.〔"Madhavdev did not use Brajabuli the way Sankardev did. If we dropped a few words, the language of most of Madhavdev's Borgeets reduce to old Assamese" .〕 Brajabuli, with its preponderance of vowels and alliterative expressions, as considered ideal for lyrical compositions, and Sankardeva used it for Borgeets and ''Ankiya Naats''. Sankardeva composed about two hundred and forty borgeets, but a fire destroyed them all and only about thirty four of them could be retrieved from memory. Sankardeva, much saddened by this loss, gave up writing borgeets and asked Madhavdeva to write them instead. Madhavdeva composed more than two hundred borgeets, which focus mainly on the child-Krishna. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Borgeet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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