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Purna Das Baul (b. 1933)

Birbhum mystic singer-philosopher who carried Bengal's wandering ektara, duggi, and sahajiya Baul song lineage onto five continents.

Bengali mystic minstrel Purna Das Baul

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Bengali mystic minstrel Purna Das Baul
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Born in Ekchakra-Birbhum, West Bengal, as the son of legendary sadhak Nabani Das Khyapa Baul, Purna Das Baul grew up singing oral dehataatva ('the human body as microcosm') lyrics of Lalon Fakir, Chandidas, and Vaishnava-Sufi sahajiya mendicants at Joydev Kenduli melas. 1

Accompanying his soaring tenor with the single-string bamboo-gourd ektara, clay kettle-drum duggi, and ankle bells while turning in saffron alkhalla robes, he was hailed as Baul Samrat in 1967 and awarded the Padma Shri in 2013. 1

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Baul Songs — UNESCO Masterpieces & Representative List 00107UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2008—
"Purna Das Baul (b. 1933)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/purna-das-baul · CC BY-SA 4.0.