Pashupatinath child
About this recording
- Creator
- Kristin Post
- Date created
- October 12, 2000
- Duration
- 1:31
- Location
- Pashupatinath, Nepal
- File
- MP3
- License
- This recording copyright ©2000. Terms of use
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In this recording, you can hear Kumar, a 12-year-old child I happened to meet while resting near a Hindu temple and bridge on my way to Pashupatinath. The child and his friend approached me, presumably to practice his English. He was kind enough to let me record him discussing himself and his family. At the very end, he names some of the Hindu gods that are carved into the bridge.
Transcript
- Kristin
- What’s your name?
- Kumar
- I speaking?
- Kristin
- Uh huh.
- Kristin
- My name is Kumar. I live in Gorigar[?] I live in Gorigar. I am … I am 12 years old. I have two brothers and one sisters. Yeah.
- Kristin
- And what’s over this way?
- Kristin
- This way. This way go to Sabel [?]. Sabel. My sister name is Sunju. My mother’s…and…not father’s…mother’s. I have one mothers. Yeah, OK. Thank you.
- Kristin
- Tell me more about what we’re looking at…where we are, and what we are looking at. On the uh…bridge…what were we looking at…
- Kristin
- [pause. Friend speaks in Nepali.]
- Kristin
- Ganesh?
- Kristin
- Ganesh. Hanuman. Gauri (?). Ganesh father, name of Shiva. Hanuman, father of…Hanuman father’s name of Vayu. Vayu..[inaudible.] Gauri father’s name is Gachi [inaudible.] Yeah. Thank you.
- Kristin
- Thank you.
