Abhanga 842
English: Āpulālā lāhō — let-us-do.
The verse
आपुलाला लाहो करूं । केणें भरूं हा विठ्ठल ॥१॥ भाग्य पावलों या ठाया । आतां काया कुरवंडी ॥ध्रु.॥ पुढती कोठें घडे ऐसें । बहुतां दिसें फावलें ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे जाली जोडी । चरण घडी न विसंभें ॥३॥
Literal translation
English: Āpulālā lāhō — let-us-do. Kēṇē — fill — this — Viṭṭhal. Bhāgya — reached — yā ṭhāya. Now — kāyā — kuravaṇḍī. Ahead — where — happens — such. Many — days — phāvalē. Tuka says: made — jōḍī. Caraṇa — ghaḍī — not — visambhē.
मराठी: आपुलाला लाहो करूं — हा विठ्ठल केणें (माल) म्हणून भरूं. भाग्य ह्या-ठायीं पावलोम — आतां काया कुरवंडी (ओवाळून-अर्पण). पुढती असं कुठे घडेल — बहुत-दिवसांना (कितीतरी-दिवसांनी) फावलं?. Tuka म्हणे: जोडी जाली — चरण घडी (क्षणभर) विसंभत नाहीं.
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
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| आपुलाला लाहो करूं | "āpulālā lāhō — let-us-do" |
| केणें भरूं हा विठ्ठल | "kēṇē — fill-up — this — Viṭṭhal" |
| भाग्य पावलों या ठाया | "bhāgya — reached — yā ṭhāya" |
| आतां काया कुरवंडी | "now — kāyā — kuravaṇḍī" |
| पुढती कोठें घडे ऐसें | "ahead — where — happens — such" |
| बहुतां दिसें फावलें | "many — days — phāvalē" |
| जाली जोडी | "made — jōḍī" |
| चरण घडी न विसंभें | "caraṇa — ghaḍī — not — visambhē" |
What it means
A each-profit-fill-up-with-Viṭṭhal-as-merchandise-fortune-reached-body-offered-as-kuravaṇḍī-where-ahead-such-happen-feet-not-let-slip-for-a-moment abhang. Viṭṭhal-as-merchandise-and-feet-not-let-slip register. Three claims:
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आपुलाला-लाहो — Viṭṭhal-केणें-भरूं — भाग्य-ठायीं — काया-कुरवंडी. Each-profit-Viṭṭhal-as-merchandise-and-body-offered-claim. Let-us-each profit (āpulālā lāhō — each-his-own-gain); let-us fill-up (our stock-of-merchandise / our kēṇa) with this Viṭṭhal (= the Viṭṭhal itself is the kēṇa — the merchandise we're stocking); we have reached bhāgya at *yā ṭhāya (at this place — Pandharī / the saint-presence); now I make a kuravaṇḍī (the waving-around-and-offering — like the gesture of waving the body around the head and casting-it-aside as offering) of the kāyā (body). Each-profit-fill-with-Viṭṭhal; body-offered-as-kuravaṇḍī. (The merchant-poet uses his-trade-vocabulary: each-fill-his-stock with Viṭṭhal as kēṇa, then offer the body as kuravaṇḍī*.)
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पुढती-कुठे-असं-घडे — बहुतां-दिसें-फावलं. Where-ahead-such-happen-rare-availability-claim. Where, ahead (in future), will-such-as-this ghaḍē (happen)? — to *bahutām disē (many days = after many-days) has it become-phāvalē (available, found). Where-ahead-will-such-happen — only-after-many-days-it-came-to-be-available. (The phāvalē note: this opportunity (Pandharī, satsang) doesn't come every-day — bahutām disē (after many days) it became-found.)
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Tuka: जोडी-जाली — चरण-घडी-न-विसंभें. Feet-not-let-slip-for-a-moment-claim. Tuka says: the jōḍī (joining, the meeting, the gathering) has-been-made; the *caraṇa — even for ghaḍī (a-moment) — I will not visambhē (let-slip, forget). Feet-grasped-and-not-let-slip-for-a-moment. (Closing firm-grip: now that the jōḍī* is made, the feet won't be-let-go-of even for-a-moment.)
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For someone today
This abhang names the Viṭṭhal-as-merchandise-and-feet-not-let-slip register:
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Let us each profit; fill-up with Viṭṭhal as merchandise. Each-profit.
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Fortune reached this place; body offered as kuravaṇḍī. Body-offered.
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Where ahead will such happen? After many days it became available; feet not let-slip for a moment. Feet-not-let-slip.
For today: let-us-each profit (lāhō karūm); fill-up (our merchandise) with this Viṭṭhal as kēṇa; we have reached bhāgya at yā ṭhāya; (let me) make a kuravaṇḍī of my kāyā; where ahead will-such-as-this happen? — only-after-many-days it became-phāvalē; the jōḍī is made; the caraṇa — even for-a-moment, I won't let-slip.
This abhang is Tukaram's Viṭṭhal-as-merchandise-and-feet-not-let-slip register — one of the most-firm-grip rare-opportunity statements. Compare 0824 Tuka-shopkeeper-shows-by-price-vāṇī (Tuka's mudra); same merchant-imagery but here organized around Viṭṭhal-as-merchandise-to-stock and feet-not-let-slip. The caraṇa ghaḍī na visambhē (feet, for a moment, I won't let-slip) is the precise firm-grip image*.
मराठी: ही ओवी Viṭṭhal-as-merchandise-and-feet-not-let-slip register नाव सांगते:
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लाहो-Viṭṭhal-केणें. Each-profit.
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भाग्य-ठायीं; काया-कुरवंडी. Body-offered.
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बहुतां-दिसें-फावलं; चरण-घडी-न-विसंभें. Feet-not-let-slip.
आज: आपुलाला lāhō करूं — Viṭṭhal kēṇa-म्हणून भरूं; Bhāgya ह्या-ठायीं पावलं — आतां kāyā kuravaṇḍī; पुढे असं कुठे घडेल — बहुतां-दिसें phāvalē; Jōḍī जाली — caraṇa घडी-भरही विसंभत-नाहीं.
Tukaram च-Viṭṭhal-as-merchandise-and-feet-not-let-slip-register — Most-firm-grip rare-opportunity statements पैकी एक. 0824 Tuka-shopkeeper-shows-by-price-vāṇī (Tuka mudra) compare; तीच merchant-imagery पण इथे Viṭṭhal-as-merchandise-to-stock आणि feet-not-let-slip च्या मार्गाने. Caraṇa ghaḍī na visambhē precise firm-grip image.
Where this applies
- Each-profit.* Communal-gain.
- Body-offered.* Kuravaṇḍī.
- Feet-not-let-slip.* Firm-grip.