{"id":3286,"date":"2020-06-15T17:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T12:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2020-06-15T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:13:21","slug":"my-nanis-paijeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/my-nanis-paijeb\/","title":{"rendered":"My Nani&#8217;s Paijeb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY SAMRIDDHI ROY<br><\/strong><em>New Delhi, India<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was with a flicker in her eyes that my mother carefully handed me her great grandmother\u2019s anklets, silver &#8216;paijeb&#8217; or &#8216;payal&#8217;. &#8220;Maai ke paas dus tarah ke alag alag paajeb the&#8221;, My mother owned ten different designs of payal, Nani said while genially recalling her mother&#8217;s, Kusum Mishra\u2019s, delectable collection. &#8220;Meenakari, sone ke taar aur chaandi&#8221;, Meenakari design, gold and silver anklets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My maternal grandmother, Kamini Tiwary was born on 1 September, 1945 in Munger district, Begusarai, Bihar and belonged to a zamindari family. Her father, Bhuwaneshwar Mishra was a zamindar living in the Terai district in Kathmandu, Nepal.&nbsp; Terai is a lowland region between northern India and southern Nepal situated in the foothills of the Himalayas. Hindus mostly settled in the Terai region of Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani-college.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3292\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3292\" class=\"wp-image-3292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani-college.jpg 592w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani-college-410x600.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Nani during her college days<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani-after-marriage-1-742x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3316\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani-after-marriage-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3316\" class=\"wp-image-3316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani-after-marriage-1-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani-after-marriage-1-435x600.jpg 435w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani-after-marriage-1-768x1060.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani-after-marriage-1-1112x1536.jpg 1112w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani-after-marriage-1.jpg 1452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A photo of nani taken at a shoot after her wedding<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The term zamindar means land owner in Persian. Typically hereditary, zamindars held enormous tracts of land and control over their peasants, from whom they reserved the right to collect tax on behalf of imperial courts or for military purposes. As zamindars, nani&#8217;s family experienced a lot of wealth. My grandmother&#8217;s stories are filled with accounts of weavers bent low under the weight of silks, jewellers carrying ornaments meant to be worn on every inch of a woman\u2019s body, \u2018itra\u2019 boxes being circulated as sweets, lavish wooden utensils, sumptuous rooms and everything else she could recollect, awashed with an enthusiastic melody of her life in Pipra, Nepal. Silver did not attain the value gold did in their family and oftentimes the household help and other staff were paid in silver coins instead of their usual salaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani--scaled-e1592146040773-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani--scaled-e1592146040773-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani--scaled-e1592146040773-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani--scaled-e1592146040773-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani--scaled-e1592146040773-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nani--scaled-e1592146040773.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This led me to question why she so prudently caged this particular pair of silver paijeb. Nani shot a muddled look at me, as if the stunning cut of tiny silver flowers on the rim, dripping down to a dense bunch of anklet bells, were not reason enough for her to cherish it. Her beautiful gaze drew dewy as she narrated through her wedding day, just as if, it was yesterday. As the oldest of three sisters, Nani was given the heaviest and most exquisite paijeb out of the collection, on 8 March, 1969, her wedding day. The very next day, she tucked in her pure gold and silver zari-embroidered soft pink sari, and accessorised it with her elegant silver paijeb, setting her foot into a new phase of her life. Fashioned in a manner, very unlike the generic craftsmanship of local jewellers, this silver paijeb was closer to her heart than any other opulent object she owned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gold-saree-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3309\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gold-saree-3-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/gold-saree-3\/\" class=\"wp-image-3309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gold-saree-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gold-saree-3-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gold-saree-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gold-saree-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gold-saree-3-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The saree worn by nani on her wedding day<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Gold-saree-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3308\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Gold-saree-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/gold-saree\/\" class=\"wp-image-3308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Gold-saree-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Gold-saree-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Gold-saree-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Gold-saree-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Gold-saree-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The sari is woven in the zari technique with pure gold and silver threads<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This pair of payal has been in my family for more than 160 years now. Nani\u2019s Mai (mother) was given the paijeb by her mother. Beyond that nani has very little traceable idea of its emergence. It\u2019s interesting to me how the chronological aspect of one\u2019s mind often loses the definable trace of objects and events. Invariably, such heavy emotive realisation is deployed on the paijeb, that my question on its practical origination, was brushed off by her within seconds. When Nani readily dispensed a piece of her heart to my mother Nidhi Tiwary on her wedding day, 1 March 1993, she was reminded of how her mai paraded the paijeb proudly on her tender feet. The payal now looked more pristine than ever on my mother\u2019s feet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mom-wearing-the-payal-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mom-wearing-the-payal-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mom-wearing-the-payal-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mom-wearing-the-payal-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mom-wearing-the-payal-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mom-wearing-the-payal-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>My mother wearing the silver paijeb<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaped cleverly as a muscle in your body, the sequenced flowers on the piajeb glints of exquisitely simple yet intriguing stone work. The tiny payal balls sprouting out of the top curvy anklet smell exactly like my grandmother\u2019s iron almirah back home. Even after all these years, the shine on the payal bounces around like a kaleidoscope of shimmering seashores. It has the easiest push-to- plug in silver lock system. My mother stores the payal set in a wooden jewellery box at our home in Delhi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My grandfather Bishnu Kant Tiwary\u2019s family also belonged to Pipra, near Janakpur, Nepal. Nana\u2019s father, Dr. Rameshwar Tiwary was a very well-known doctor in the region. I am unable to trace the advent of their settlement and why both sides of the family were there but my mother tells me that a huge \u2018basti\u2019 of the Mishra clan resides in the region since times immemorial. My grandparents were introduced through a common friend who was a professor in Gaya College. Nana and nani tied the knot in between their studies. Immediately after marriage, nani completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and my grandfather completed his engineering degree. They ended up moving to Ranchi once my grandfather joined Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nana-and-Nani-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nana-and-Nani-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nana-and-Nani-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nana-and-Nani-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nana-and-Nani-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nana-and-Nani-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>My grandparents during their first photoshoot after their wedding in 1969<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I have heard Nani talk about humungous silver &#8216;<em>tamdaans<\/em>&#8216;, Paalkis with ferocious lion heads on their handles which were lifted by &#8216;<em>kahars<\/em>&#8216;, paalki carriers \u2013 when asked about its purpose, she euphorically harks back to her wedding day, when nana arrived for the ceremonies in the same <em>tamdaan<\/em>. She explains how all the grooms were carried in these instead of cars, such as in today\u2019s time. Later, she informs, these <em>tamdaans<\/em> were claimed on hire charge by the people in neighbouring villages for their weddings. She often sat on pure silver chairs with roaring tigers on their head because it\u2019s never a bad idea to own one. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wooden-Itra-box-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3298\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wooden-Itra-box-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3298\" class=\"wp-image-3298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wooden-Itra-box-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wooden-Itra-box-1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wooden-Itra-box-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wooden-Itra-box-1.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Wooden attar box belonging to Nani&#8217;s family<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Brass-paan-daan-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3300\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Brass-paan-daan.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3300\" class=\"wp-image-3300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Brass-paan-daan-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Brass-paan-daan-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Brass-paan-daan-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Brass-paan-daan.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Paan daan made of brass<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nani&#8217;s life in Ranchi was slightly divergent from her father\u2019s place. Her favourite comparison to draw is, &#8220;Ranchi had a wonderful club house where we watched movies every weekend.&#8221; Pipra was ironically simple and moneyed for her. The Zamindari system was abolished in India in 1951 and this impacted the family quite a bit. My mother remembers reading a letter her grandfather wrote to nani after she had moved to Ranchi, wherein he informed her about the abolition of Zamindari act and how he was worried about getting her sisters married. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Folding-glass-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3299\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3299\" class=\"wp-image-3299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Folding-glass-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Folding-glass-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Folding-glass-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Folding-glass.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Folding glass made of brass<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nanis-babas-gold-zari-topi-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3314\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nanis-babas-gold-zari-topi.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/?attachment_id=3314\" class=\"wp-image-3314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nanis-babas-gold-zari-topi-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nanis-babas-gold-zari-topi-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nanis-babas-gold-zari-topi-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nanis-babas-gold-zari-topi.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Embroidered Zari hat belonging to Nani&#8217;s father<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepal was hit by the abolishment act later in comparison to India. Nani recalls that it was only after 1964-65 that the Raja of Nepal visited her Baba\u2019s <em>chacha<\/em> (father&#8217;s brother) to deliver the tragic news. She has a vague recollection of her baba sharing his worries around how post-abolishment the labourers would flout orders from the zamindaris. Given her father&#8217;s healthy investments, nani wasn&#8217;t too worried about the impact of this on her lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_4531-1-1-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_4531-1-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_4531-1-1-337x600.jpg 337w, https:\/\/museumofmaterialmemory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_4531-1-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption>Wearing the heirloom paijeb and my grandmother&#8217;s saree at my graduation ceremony in 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I listened to my nani narrate the story about her wedding with my whole body to only learn one of the purest things about love- there is nothing a person won\u2019t give up to see the other person happy. My mother\u2019s happiness on sharing the paijeb with me is also testimony to this.  On the final day of my graduation, my mother dropped her long resistance and finally let me borrow my grandmother&#8217;s silver paijeb to wear as a necklace for the ceremony. I draped my nani&#8217;s glistening peacock blue silk saree and wore the paijeb around my neck as a shining armour as I stepped into a new phase of my life. To love something is to care for it, which lives on through the relic my Nani refers to as her &#8220;mai ke paijeb&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Immersed in its time the payal may be loud today and languid tomorrow, but nani\u2019s story is real, and it matters because that voice is hers. And each time she narrates it, she lives the soulful, sentimental, eerie trajectory, which is her life.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the oldest of three sisters, Nani was given the heaviest and most exquisite paijeb out of the collection, on 8 March, 1969, her wedding day. 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