Gamosa

           I spent my childhood in a village .The charming natural beauty of  my village ,the traditions, customs of village,the peacefully living environment become me nostalgic .Therefore ,I try to write about my village life believe .

Assamese gamusa

Gamusa is the very respective thing in assam, many song, poem ,and  many story written on gamusa. In our village every women making gamusa in tat-hal (waving).Gamusa is short cloth, design flowers in one side of the gamusa and other side fill with “ansu”. Generally, the gamusa is a white cloth with red boarder. Every assamese people respect it and it is our identity for making gamusa in present time(before freedom, and many years of freedom the cloth making procedure of assamese people differ from present time)  hipini” (the cloth maker)buy huta (string)from market, after it if the string is raw (kesa huta like 40 r huta,80huta)they boil the string ,they also boil rice,the boiling rice police on the string and after it they perfectly rearrange it.for rearrange they use two different kind of instrument...” letai “ and “sereki”. After doing it they kept the “nesa “(bundle of the string)in the sun to perfectly dry. when the string dry the cloth maker again rearrange the cloth on ugha.now the time come the long and every importance part of cloth making procedure, they first make the measurement and after it they open the string from the” ugha”.   started to making cloth putting the muhura on maku.when the village women make Gamusa from the soliso(40huta)string or akshee(80) it call tiyonee Gmusa,the village people uses it like towel and hancky, when they go to paddy field for plugging, harvesting they bring this kind of gamusa.Another use of this type of gamusa when a girl got puberty than some kind of customs are done by village women in this purpose for making konai (a kind of doll ,making by cloth)this kind of custom is very important for villagers.when someone like father ,mother etc died in the family than the son who grave the death person he use this kind of tiyonee gamusa,because another cloth which is making by factory or any other machine is not allowed for a month.

After it they do different work like ” tat bati”, “rashboruwa”, “tat soluwa” etc, they do all the works in a open place which is called “sutal”,(sutal is one kind open place in front of the rural house of assam, this sutal is also importance for assamese rural people)After finishing these works,the hipini doing one thing which is called “bor uthuwa” ,this work is very important for a tat,the flexibility ,smoothness of a tat depend on it. when the bor uthuwa work have finished the cloth maker done another important work ,which is known as “halot aarowa” .when the “halot uthuwa“ procedure is finished they do another works they properly arrange the “jal mari” which is conneting from bor,therefore bor bati or bor uthuwa is important,when jal mari connenting from bor they give the further result of smooth ness of the tat.now the hipin mak muhura which is the small pice of bamboo having hold in the middle,the hipini raping string on muhura from the ugha with the help of jator.Now they  started to making cloth putting the muhura on maku.when the village women make Gamusa from the soliso(40huta)string or akshee(80) it call tiyonee Gmusa,the village people uses it like towel and hancky, when they go to paddy field for plugging, harvesting they bring this kind of gamusa.Another use of this type of gamusa when a girl got puberty than some kind of customs are done by village women in this purpose for making konai (a kind of doll ,making by cloth)this kind of custom is very important for villagers.when someone like father ,mother etc died in the family than the son who grave the death person he use this kind of tiyonee gamusa,because another cloth which is making by factory or any other machine is not allowed for a month.

Fullam Gamusa 

  Fullam gamusa is specially making from pokuwa huta,podmini,pat huta muga huta etc.These kind of string is different from 40,80string ,beacuse these is not police by votor mar(rice police)Directly Do the procedures which are necessary for a tat(cloth making).The rural women preparing some kind of fullam gamusa for akhan(a kind of thing very respect fully kept in the place where the assamese people praying to God for their peaceful life ,hermony and posperty.this place is known as namghar,akhan kept in namghar),when they prepare the gamuse for akhan they kept fasting ,and pray to God accept it.

        

Anothet kind of gamusa having flowers one boundary side use by the old people

Which is the devotee of God known as Bhokot….

Shenai r Gamusa

This kind of Gmusa specially prepare by the young girl to give their beloved as a gift of love.The girl makes the designable flowers as they can,

Dora Gmusa

Every assamese people follow this tradition.The grome give a gamusa to her bride to wear it when he come her home to marry her

But some rules are change in the present time  gamusa is newly design by the designers.so present times gamuse having flowers both sides,But in our village it is believe that the bride should not put the both sides flower desiging gamusa.In the ancient time gamusa is the speciall cloth of man.But now women also wear it,dress makes from gamusa,fashoin showes are held using gamusa design clothes.

But the beauty and grogiousness of gamuse we cannot denied. We love our identity,we love gamusa.

(NB. ..the opinion of different people differ,therefore the custom is also different from one part of another part,the myth,believes are not equal therefore I write only those which are  done in my village).

Some bihu nam(some bihu songs)

 This type of bihu nam is speciaally sing by the lovers which are not meet each other due to their familly restriction...

ক) চেনাই লৈ.           বৈ থৈছো

   গুটি ফুলৰ বিহুৱান খন

দিব হে পৰা নাই 
(prepared the bihu ann(gamusa)with guti phool(flower)but she connot give it her beloved)

খ)তুমি বৈ য়ে দিয়া বিহুৱান খনি লৈ য়ে মোৰ চেনেহী বিহু মাৰিবলৈ যাম(I went to dance(bihu dance)wearing the gamusa given by you)

গ়) চেনাই লৈ বোৱা  গামোচা খন লুকুৱাই থলো,আই যদি পাই পিতাইক কব ঘনে ঘনে কঁপিছে বুকু(hide the gamuse,which is prepared for my beloved,if mother know she told father...my is beatting quickly quickly)