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Sorrowful Kalahantarita nayika is full of remorse after having fought with her lover as represented by Odissi dancer Dipty Mishra here.
Dance
Kalahantarita nayika: One of the Ashta Nayikas (Learn the Lingo of 14 September 2007). The Kalahantarita derives her name from the Sanskrit for quarrel or clash (kalah). She is, literally, separated due to a quarrel. She is plagued by feelings of remorse after having fought with her lover, humiliated him and sent him away. This is usually the state that follows Khandita (Learn the Lingo of 12 October 2007).
The Kalahantarita regrets her harsh words. She often is seen confiding her feelings to her friend, (her sakhi). She may relive the experience vividly, recalling how she spoke to her lover, or refused to speak to him, how she attacked him with barbed words and made him a laughing stock in front of her friends, to get even with him for letting her down. She may coax her sakhi to go to the lover with a message of reconciliation, saying, “Tell him to forget the past. I am waiting for him to return. Life is hollow without him.”
Music
Sam/samam:The starting point of a time cycle. In Teen tala, the 16 beats of the time cycle are represented by the syllables Dha Dhin Dhin Dha, Dha Dhin Dhin Dha, Dha Tin Tin Ta, Ta Dhin Dhin Dha. (The commas here are only for ease of reading and do not count as pauses). In Teen tala, therefore, the sam is the first syllable ‘Dha’. In Carnatic music, the same concept is referred to as the samam.
Since the concept of tala (Learn the Lingo of 9 March 2007 ) is cyclical, the sam is not only the beginning but also the last beat. When musicians or dancers improvise on a rhythmic cycle, they may perform patterns at variance with each other but finish the pattern in such a way as to finish together on the sam or samam, which will be the finale of that particular improvisation.
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