{"id":4978,"date":"2018-11-20T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2021-05-23T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T11:39:23","slug":"chaavu-paat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/chaavu-paat\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaavu Paat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chaavu Paat is the song sung  on the funeral<\/a> day and is unique type of kodava paats <\/a><\/p>\n

Author of this article<\/h3>\n

Kaibulira Devaiah<\/p>\n

Source<\/h3>\n

Extracted from the folk  lore ballad<\/p>\n

About<\/h3>\n

The Kodava funeral song is sung on the funeral day by four villagers or relatives . These four singers sit beside the dead body . In the olden days it is said that both men and women used to sing  Chaav Paat ,  4 men used to sing for a while and 4 women for a while until the dead body is taken out for cremation . Gradually through the years women Chaav Paat singers have become non existent . The uniqueness of  Chaav Paat is that  unlike most of other Kodava folk songs , Chaav Paat doesn’t use Kodavas’ traditional drum (Dhudi) or cymbals (Thaala) . The song is very lengthy and also can be shortened if the cremation is going to take place early . The song lyrics is the conversation between the singers and the soul of the dead body . Depending upon the relation between the singers and the dead person , the singers uses the title as “Ajjayya ” “Avvayya” “Akkayya” “Baavayya” “Annayya” “Thangavva”  at the end of the each line of the song . The song starts with explaining the  present grieving situation of the sorrowful house with poetical analogies . Then song moves on to talk about the birth , childhood, adulthood ,  marriage , hardwork in paddy fields , raising children and so on of the dead person. The song ends by explaining how the person contracted disease , the last minute struggle of the family members to save the person by arranging herbal medicine , seeking help at temple , slaughtering Pig , Chicken as offerings to deities and so on .<\/p>\n

The  song is most pathetic and touches a kindred chord in every sorrowing heart-<\/p>\n

Chaav Paat .<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kettiro Ajjaiah ninga<\/p>\n

Kett-nanake kett-le Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Kettpoana keuh-de Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Chothiro Ajjaiah ninga<\/p>\n

Chothanake chothle Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Baddhiro Ajjaiah ninga<\/p>\n

Baava kaala baddhiro Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Baavak kodhchiro Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Chaavak madchiro Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Baava kodhi yethle Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Chaava ke-uhd yethcho Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Kaala poi bappadho Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Kaalathode baathala Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Narayana Dhevando Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Itta padi thengcho Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Meley padi ittl\u00e9 Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Ael thorey Pommaale Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Maaley choorey budhdhole Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Ninga choorey buddhiro Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Notvala kannadiyo Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Kai thappi nela thaandh Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Budh-odandh poanole Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Ninga-odandh poiro Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Pollvala ponjoodh Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Paadha thundi poanole Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Ninga thundi poiro Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Thith maley pojjadho Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Naan-aranji kondle Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Naan-aranji kondino Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Nee booki kedthippo Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Kalla pade bandhadho Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Naan-aranji kondle Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Naan-aranji kondino Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Keththi choorey ittipo Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Kettiro Ajjaiah ninga<\/p>\n

Ninga ketta ke-uhde  Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Kaaala-allatha kaalatho Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Thinga-allatha thingatho Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Kumbiyar thingatho Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Iggtha maley mol-l Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Thith bedh kaanjith Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Nellige chedanjith Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Nei pillkh thithaai Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Pill choorey budhdhole Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Eee Okkada kundhl Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Ninga choorey buddhiro Ajjaiah<\/p>\n

Chaav Paat meaning<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Woe, my father, then art gone,<\/p>\n

Woe is me, For ever gone,<\/p>\n

Gone with all thy soul of virtue,<\/p>\n

Oh, how can I live my father,<\/p>\n

Woe, thy days are now concluded,<\/p>\n

And the share, assigned to thee<\/p>\n

By the Lord, is now consumed<\/p>\n

And no further portion granted.<\/p>\n

Oh, they wish was not to die,<\/p>\n

But to stay among the living<\/p>\n

Surely, man came to this world<\/p>\n

But to die; not one of us<\/p>\n

Is exempted from this doom<\/p>\n

Onward, onward roll the years;<\/p>\n

Oh, how soon were thine concluded:<\/p>\n

Like the eagle in the sky<\/p>\n

Thou vast roaming here on earth<\/p>\n

Woe, the string of choicest pearls<\/p>\n

Round the neck of our children<\/p>\n

Is forever burst and scattered,<\/p>\n

Woe, the clear and brilliant mirror,<\/p>\n

Fallen out of our hand,<\/p>\n

Fallen to the ground, and broken,<\/p>\n

Woe, the wrath of God Almighty,<\/p>\n

Floods of fiery indignation,<\/p>\n

Beating on the lefty mountains,<\/p>\n

Swept their summit to the ground,<\/p>\n

Like the enemies at night,<\/p>\n

Breaking into peaceful houses,<\/p>\n

Slaying all the valiant men,<\/p>\n

Even thus has God Almighty<\/p>\n

Suddenly cut off thy days.<\/p>\n

Like the top of Tumbemale<\/p>\n

In the sultry days of summer,<\/p>\n

When the sun is not and burning,<\/p>\n

And the grass is set on fire,<\/p>\n

Thus, O father, was this house<\/p>\n

Desolated by thy death,<\/p>\n

As the raging storms in June<\/p>\n

Break the fruitful plantain trees<\/p>\n

In the garden round our house,<\/p>\n

Thus vast thou cut off, O father,<\/p>\n

When the floods destroy the shed,<\/p>\n

Where the stores of wood were sheltered,<\/p>\n

All the house is in distress.<\/p>\n

When the meeting hall is ruined,<\/p>\n

All the villagers lament.<\/p>\n

If the temple is destroyed,<\/p>\n

All the land is full of sorrow.<\/p>\n

Thus is our house distressed<\/p>\n

By thy sudden death, O father,<\/p>\n

As they quench the shining flame<\/p>\n

Of the beauteous golden lamp,<\/p>\n

Thus has God destroyed thy life,<\/p>\n

As the stately Banyan tree<\/p>\n

In the lofty mountain forest,<\/p>\n

Which the ax has never touched,<\/p>\n

Is uprooted by the whirlwind ;<\/p>\n

Like the bright and shining leaf<\/p>\n

Of the royal Sampige,<\/p>\n

Broken from the stem and withered;<\/p>\n

Thus wast thou cut off, O father,<\/p>\n

In the days of life thy hand<\/p>\n

Had supported our house,<\/p>\n

Thou hast planted our fields,<\/p>\n

Thou hast laid the corner-stone,<\/p>\n

And completed our mansion<\/p>\n

To the roof, with costly timber<\/p>\n

Thou hast built the solid gate,<\/p>\n

And the courts around the house<\/p>\n

Oh, my father; yesterday<\/p>\n

Fallen on the bed of sickness,<\/p>\n

And to-day before the feet<\/p>\n

Of the Lord of earth and heaven,<\/p>\n

And tomorrow, like the sun<\/p>\n

Setting in the cloudy sky,<\/p>\n

Thou shall sink into the grave.<\/p>\n

Woe, my father, thou art gone,<\/p>\n

Woe, my father, gone for ever<\/p>\n

Song<\/h3>\n

Yet to recieve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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