The Salhesh tradition brings a community’s stories into music, enactment and offerings. Its published accounts do not amount to a single canonical biography.
An attributed account of folklore or practice. Narrative events are not certified historical facts. Checked 2026-10-26.
A performance, not only a name
The national inventory identifies Salhesh with the Dusadh community of Mithila. It describes a Bhagat leading the ritual and Manaria performers enacting the legend through song, movement and music, with terracotta horse-riders offered at the close.
Sangeet Natak Akademi / national intangible-cultural-heritage inventoryOne collector’s version
Sunil Kumar’s published collection follows Salhesh through the intervention of Durga, family alliances and encounters with the Malin sisters. This is one attributed account from the Bihar–Nepal region, not a genealogy that every version must follow.
Folkartopedia; collection credited to Sunil KumarThe dates do not merge
The inventory describes a Shravan observance. The collector also mentions a fair associated with Jud-Shital at the flower grove. These references are kept with their sources; they are not combined into one festival date.
Sangeet Natak Akademi / national intangible-cultural-heritage inventoryFolkartopedia; collection credited to Sunil KumarAccounts do not always agree.
National inventory account
Emphasises community identity, ritual performance and craft.
Sangeet Natak Akademi / national intangible-cultural-heritage inventorySunil Kumar’s collected account
Supplies a particular narrative sequence and relationships from the Bihar–Nepal tradition.
Folkartopedia; collection credited to Sunil KumarReading the account
The master pack’s uncle/nephew/commander relationships and conflicting Salhesh–Chauharmal summaries are not merged into a canonical family graph.
The photographs show contemporary shrines; they do not prove a hero’s historical biography.
Original attributed factual profile and short synopsis only. Source texts, recordings, translations, images and whole retellings are not reproduced. No blanket open licence or historical certification is asserted.
Sangeet Natak Akademi / national intangible-cultural-heritage inventoryFolkartopedia; collection credited to Sunil Kumar