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[[File:Oral history of Odisha - Bahuna gita.webm|thumb|An elderly woman singing a ''kandana''' in [[Baleswari Odia]].]]<br />
'''Kandana'''s or '''{{transl|or|bahuna|italic=no}}'''s are [[Folk music|folk]] [[mourning]] songs with lyrics in [[Odia language]] that are mostly sung by women during marriage in the Indian state of [[Odisha]].<ref name="Jena1980">{{cite book|author=B. B. Jena|title=Orissa, people, culture, and polity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4zNuAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Kalyani Publishers}}</ref> [[Maiden]]s generally sing these songs during the wedding. The songs consist of lyrics depicting the sorrow of separation from their own family as they start living with their in laws after the wedding.<ref name="Datta1988">{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1305|year=1988|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1194-0|pages=1305–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Orissa Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHpQAQAAMAAJ|date=February 2004}}</ref> The bride and other women of her family generally weep reciting these songs towards the end of the wedding.{{cn|date=May 2020}}<br />
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