Six attributed traditions: Salhesh, Lorik–Chanda, Reshma–Chauharmal, Sama-Chakeva, Bihula–Bishahari and Maithili seasonal songs.
Living traditions have tellers, communities and variants. These profiles describe published accounts; they do not turn legends into certified historical events.
The Salhesh tradition brings a community’s stories into music, enactment and offerings. Its published accounts do not amount to a single canonical biography.
Mithila; Bihar and the Nepal borderlands in the cited collection
Read the account & variants ↗Lorik and Chanda’s romance moves between oral performance and written poetry. The account changes with its teller, language and setting.
North and central India, including Bihar; the comparative performance examples cited here are from Chhattisgarh
Read the account & variants ↗The master pack combines incompatible Chauharmal stories. A checked report supplies a shorter, specifically attributed account under the title Resma.
Anjani near Mokama, Patna, in the cited account
Read the account & variants ↗Small clay figures make a seasonal story tangible. Bihar Tourism describes Sama-Chakeva through bird forms, ritual and the relationship between brothers and sisters.
Mithila
Read the account & variants ↗Bihula-Bishahari connects an eastern Bihar festival with Manjusha art. The narrative travels in painted characters as well as in worship.
Anga; Bhagalpur and eastern Bihar in the cited sources
Read the account & variants ↗In Kailash Mishra’s classification, the months organise longing, festivals and practical knowledge. The calendar is something sung as well as counted.
Mithila, described by the scholar as north Bihar and Nepal’s Terai
Read the account & variants ↗THE UNDERLYING RECORDS
1 dataset · 6 records · normalized 26 October 2026
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