Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Assam Sahitya Sabha 73rd Session: Side Snippets-II


Eighty-foot-long Gunamala: An 80-foot-long Gunamala woven by Ms. Hemo Prabha Chutiya of Moran in Dibrugarh district of Assam. Ms. Chutiya has woven the holy book on an eighty-foot-long cloth with Muga yarn and metallic yarn (called Jari in Hindi and Guna Suta in Assam. Srimanta Sankaradeva had prepared the holy Gunamala as the shortest version of the holy Sri-Madbhagavata at the instance of Maharaja Naranarayana. Ms. Chutiya, took nine months to weave the Gunamala.
Indigenous people making day to day household requirement from Bamboo shoots.
Baking cakes & eatables from rice powder by local indigenous people

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