kirtan
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- Etymology and nomenclature
- Bhajan and kirtan
- Hindu kirtan
- Styles of Hindu kirtan
- Vaishnava kirtan
- Carnatic traditions
- Marathi kirtan
- Sikhism
- Buddhism
- Judaism
- In the Western world
- Given name
- See also
- References
- External links
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Kirtana (; ), also rendered as Kiirtan, Kirtan or Keertan, is a Sanskrit word that means "narrating, reciting, telling, describing" of an idea or story, specifically in Indian religions. It also refers to a genre of religious performance arts, connoting a musical form of narration, shared recitation, or devotional singing, particularly of spiritual or religious ideas, native to the Indian subcontinent. A person performing kirtan is known as a kirtankara (or kirtankar, कीर्तनकार).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “kirtan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.