At the bottom of the kurwa hills <br />Lie in the sacred spots <br />Of Pakpathar <br />Under an exotic tree of a wild tree <br />Vermillioned, <br />The storks speaking their tongues <br />And the place lonely <br />Amidst the fields and fallows <br />And the devotees aboriginal <br />And the priest aboriginal <br />Praying to <br />And offering ganja, daru, sweets <br />And other things <br />As for a puja <br />As for to get fulfilled <br />And it sounds the drum <br />And the flower falling <br />Symbolizing the fulfillment <br />Of the wishful prayer <br />And he will have to come to <br />To give a puja <br />Whatever wished. <br /> <br />People coming to as for the return of <br />The straying cattle, <br />The information indicated or hinted towards <br />As the whereabouts unknown <br />With regard to the missing and lost, <br />The Lord of The Woods, <br />Really a powerful god, <br />Which but cannot be proved, <br />But can be felt it <br />And he helps <br />The people in need, <br />Distraught and in despair, <br />The only source of light. <br /> <br />Chutonath, a little away from Dumka <br />Across the river, across the hills <br />Just at the foothill <br />Of the plateau region <br />Red-soiled and of the hilly domain, <br />Under the timber trees <br />Lies Chuto Baba, <br />Another sacred and sacrosanct spot <br />Without the shed, <br />But under the open <br />The sacred stones, <br />Powerful and living <br />And fulfilling <br />And punishing <br />If the fault be any, <br />The Lord of The Woods.<br /><br />Bijay Kant Dubey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/chatia-baba-chutonath-of-the-santhal-parganas-dumka/
