tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83342509184388451742024-03-13T21:48:43.021-07:00beyond borderJayant Posthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09985170458620097665noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8334250918438845174.post-43646308821723681522016-08-07T05:22:00.001-07:002016-08-07T05:22:51.355-07:00accounts of bishe nagarchi<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">O Lordship!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After two hundred and fifty years –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have gone insane</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in this very Gorkha rajya1!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My head is spinning like a wheel –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the Earth for me is stretching upto the skies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and the sky is descending down on Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With my dazzled eyes –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I see in you, a ten-headed creature!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where do my feet tread upon?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where on the Earth is Bishe Nagarchi?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lord! I have really gone insane!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I should have served you, my master!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I should have thanked you, my Lord!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">– for all little pity you blessed on me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Touching these feet of Gorakhkali2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I should have protected the history of this land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But after two hundred and fifty years –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What has this happened to me today?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lord, probably evil arrows of misfortune struck this Bishe!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have simply lost it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just because my wife was murdered</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My daughter was raped</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And my hut set ablaze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why did this Bishe have to react so much?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shame on you Bishe!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Perhaps I have gone insane, my Lord!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am out of my mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My hands are fractured –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can now no more sew</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the labeda3 of your courtiers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can now no more play</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Narsingha and Sanai4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">or, sing any seasonal and devotional songs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My legs are battered –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can now no more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">guard your territory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When my mind is not in its proper state –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can hardly speak anything right now!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lord! I am insane.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">O Master!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How these lofty hills</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">once standing tall upon Gorkha rajya</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">suddenly turn so short and midget?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How these friendly and gentle people</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">turn so bloody and ugly today?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why is this Daraundi5 flowing opposite?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why do I see this palace a ruin?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lord! I am insane!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lord!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What does your sword cut – head or flower?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">– I am in illusion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What does your rifle shoot – people or their thoughts?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">– I am in confusion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Who made this country – the king or his subjects?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">– I am in delusion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since two hundred and fifty years,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am with you Your Highess!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How can I be a terrorist?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Probably I must have gone insane!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">O Lord! I am insane!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">May be –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn’t pay heed to your Majesty’s divine adage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Under the influence of alcohol –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I might have flaunted that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">this country is equally mine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I might have regarded Bhanubhakta’s6 songs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and my needles equal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I might have displayed my bare skin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">to those adorned in clean attire sewn by me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After going crazy –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I must have cursed my own God!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your grace!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After a man goes screwed off</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">he starts picking quarrel in trifling matters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I must have tried finding my descendants</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">who grew up in rags sewn by me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where have they disappeared</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in this two hundred and fifty years time?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Perhaps the holes prickled on my fingers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and oozing blood in them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">must have aroused me even more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I might have thought that the country won by thread</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">must probably have been greater than won by sword.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">O Master! Since the very history of this land</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am a subject to your rajya.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How can I be anti-national?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Most probably I have gone insane.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Real insane!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My head is spinning like a wheel –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the Earth for me is stretching upto the skies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and the sky is descending down on Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With my dazzled eyes –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I see in you, a ten-headed creature</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where are my feet standing upon?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where on the Earth is Bishe Nagarchi?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lord! I have really gone insane!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Original: बिसे नगर्चीको बयान by Shrawan Mukarung)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Glossary:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. rajya: state; province</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. Gorakhkali: name of a Hindu Goddess native to Gorkha</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. labeda: a traditional male attire; usually a large piece of cloth wrapped around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. Narsingha and Sanai: folk brass instruments often played by tailor-caste in Nepal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5. Daraudi: name of a river in Gorkha district</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6. Bhanubhakta: regarded as the first poet of Nepal; a bard of Nepali literature</span>Jayant Posthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09985170458620097665noreply@blogger.com0