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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 1049 of 4582

Abhanga 1049

Once you belong to someone and carry their mark, they are bound to care for you despite your flaws, because your neglect would reflect on them too.

When samartha's pitiable child — won't people laugh, Dēva — and you have to recognize this register
When even if faulty and filthy, care must be done for him — and you accept this image
When such a one am I, fallen — but sealed-yours — and you receive this final claim

The verse

समर्थाचें बाळ कीविलवाणें दिसे । तरी कोणा हांसे जन देवा ॥१॥ अवगुणी जरी जालें तें वोंगळ । करावा सांभाळ लागे त्याचा ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे तैसा मी एक पतित । परि मुद्रांकित जालों तुझा ॥३॥

Literal translation

Samartha-bāḷ — kīvilavāṇē — jana — laugh — Dēva. Avaguṇī — vōngaḷa — sāmbhāḷa. Tuka says: patita — mudrānkita — yours.

मराठी: समर्थाचें बाळ कीविलवाणें दिसे — तरी कोण्या जना हांसे, Dēvā? अवगुणी जरी जालें तें वोंगळ — त्याचा सांभाळ करावा लागे. Tuka म्हणे: तैसा मी एक पतित — परि मुद्रांकित तुझा जालों.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
समर्थाचें बाळ कीविलवाणें दिसे "samartha-bāḷ — kīvilavāṇē"
तरी कोणा हांसे जन देवा "jana hāsē"
अवगुणी जरी जालें तें वोंगळ "avaguṇī — vōngaḷa"
करावा सांभाळ लागे त्याचा "sāmbhāḷa"
तैसा मी एक पतित "patita"
परि मुद्रांकित जालों तुझा "mudrānkita — yours"

What it means

A the-mighty's-child-looks-pitiable-won't-people-laugh-Dēva-even-if-faulty-and-filthy-care-has-to-be-done-for-him-such-a-one-am-I-a-fallen-one-but-I-have-become-sealed-with-your-mark-yours abhang. Mudrānkita-jālōm-tujhā register. The leverage of belonging. Three claims:

  1. समर्थ-बाळ-कीविल-वाणें — हांसे-जन. Mighty's-pitiable-child-people-will-laugh-claim. Thesamartha's bāḷ (child) looks kīvilavāṇē (pitiable, miserable); won'tjanalaugh at this, Dēvā? (If your child looks pitiable, people will laugh at you. Reputational pressure.)

  2. अवगुण-वोंगळ — सांभाळ. Even-if-filthy-care-must-be-done-claim. Even if (the child is)avaguṇī, vōngaḷa (filthy, repulsive); sāmbhāḷa has-to-be-done for him. (Caring-for-him is not contingent on his merit.)

  3. Tuka: पतित — मुद्रांकित-तुझा. Sealed-yours-claim. Tuka says: such-a-one am I, apatita (fallen one); but I have becomemudrānkita (sealed-with-your-mark, stamped) yours. (Themudrānkita—the seal of belonging— is the load-bearing claim.I have your stamp on me; even if I'm fallen, I'myours.)

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For someone today

This abhang names the mudrānkita-jālōm-tujhā register:

  1. Samartha's pitiable child — won't people laugh, Dēva. People-will-laugh.

  2. Even if faulty and filthy, care must be done. Care-regardless.

  3. Such a one am I, fallen — but sealed-yours. Sealed-yours.

For today: samartha-bāḷ kīvilavāṇē, jana hāsē; avaguṇī vōngaḷa, sāmbhāḷa; patita mī, mudrānkita jālōm tujhā.

This abhang is Tukaram'smudrānkita-jālōm-tujhāregister — one of the most-precise leverage-of-belonging statements. Themudrānkita jālōm tujhā(I have been sealed yours) is the precise sealed-claim.

मराठी: ही ओवी mudrānkita-jālōm-tujhā register नाव सांगते:

  1. समर्थ-बाळ-कीविल. People-will-laugh.

  2. अवगुण-सांभाळ. Care-regardless.

  3. मुद्रांकित-तुझा. Sealed-yours.

आज: Samartha-bāḷ kīvilavāṇē — jana hāsē; Avaguṇī-vōngaḷa, sāmbhāḷa lāgē; Patita mī, mudrānkita jālōm tujhā.

Tukaram च-mudrānkita-jālōm-tujhā-register — Most-precise leverage-of-belonging statements पैकी एक. Mudrānkita jālōm tujhā precise sealed-claim.

Where this applies

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