Shabari – dance drama MSDC

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Shabari And The Sage Matanga

Shabari was wandering in the forest and being hungry, she approached the hermitage of Sage Mathanga asking for food. At the first sight of this humble lady, sage Mathanga realized that she was a great soul. Therefore, he invited her to stay in the ashram engaging herself in the service of the community there. Shabari was more than pleased to take up the tasks of cleaning and housekeeping at the ashram. She was greatly devoted to sage Mathanga and was rendering a selfless service to him with a great sense of devotion and dedication.

By nature, forests are rugged in their surface. It is quite natural to find stones, pebbles, twigs, dry leaves and thorns all around. Every day, the sage used a particular route to reach the river nearby to complete his morning ablutions.

Shabari deemed maintaining this route in a perfect way free of thorns and pebbles as her top priority. In order to see that the road is free of thorns, she used to lie down and roll on the way so that the thorns prick on her body and are removed so that the sage’s feet are not hurt.

18 Comments

  1. Joell numa says:

    Love to read the story and pictures

  2. Syam neiwal says:

    Wow documentation

  3. You portray an awesome work. Love from Japan.

  4. Shyam Rai says:

    What a documentary. Stupendous work.

  5. Jonathan Harper says:

    A blind fan of your site. wow storytelling.

  6. Anonymous says:

    Probably a milestone for the archival work of Indian Dance!! Hats off….regards.

  7. Aparna chatterjee says:

    Great work, photography and storytelling are Incomparable.Thank you so much for gifting us every moments of this awesome dance drama

    1. I am really honoured mam

  8. Susmita Nandi says:

    HOW YOU HAVE DEPICTED THE WHOLE STORY WITH THE WRITE UP AND IMAGES….AWESOME! HATS OFF !

    1. I am overwhelmed. ?

    1. Hope to see new work from your clicks too.

  9. Anonymous says:

    Marvelous work ……

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