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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Performance
- Staging
- Participants
- Costume and makeup
- Music
- Act
- Variants
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|A bhaona performance
Bhaona is a traditional performing art form that originated in Assam. It is a Hindu religious art form, in which scenes are enacted from various mythological events and folklore. The art evolved from the songs composed by Vaishnavite saint Sankardev in the early sixteenth century CE.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bhaona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.