Mumbai, July 6 -- Teejan Bai, the legendary Pandavani exponent, whose ringing voice carried tales of the Mahabharata from the villages of Chhattisgarh to concert halls across the world, died in Raipur on Sunday following a prolonged illness. She was 70. Born into a tribal Pardhi family in Ganiyari village in present-day Chhattisgarh, Teejan Bai inherited the narrative tradition from her grandfather who performed the Pandavani or songs of the Pandavas as an itinerant village musician. But it was Teejan Bai whose theatrical presentations took the centuries-old oral tradition beyond the villages of Chhattisgarh onto the national and international arena. When she stepped onto a stage, her single-stringed ektara tucked under her arm, which she w...