Pung or Manipuri Mridanga is the soul
of Manipuri Sankritana music and Classical Manipuri Dance. It assumes an important
ritual character, an indispensable part of all social and devotional ceremonies
in Manipur, - the instrument itself becoming an object of veneration. Pung Cholom
is performed as an invocatory number preceding the Sankirtana and Ras Lila.
It is hignly refined classical dance number characterised by the modulation
of sound from soft whisper to a thunderous climax. .
There is the interplay of intricate rhythms and cross rhythms with varying markings
of time from the slow to the quick with graceful and vigorous body movements
leading to ecastic heights
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