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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 1066 of 4582

Abhanga 1066

Genuine devotion leaves real, unhidable marks earned through struggle, and it is by those marks, not by words, that you recognize someone truly transformed.

When jāti's warrior recognizes warrior; respect only at his place — and you have to recognize this register
When those with weapons for stomach are truly corvée-types — and you accept this image
When living one's blow-and-grit is true; what hides before alien's bond — and you allow this image

The verse

जातीचा पाईंक ओळखे पाइका । आदर तो एका त्याचे ठायीं ॥१॥ धरितील पोटासाटीं हतियेरें । कळती तीं खरें वेठीचींसीं ॥ध्रु.॥ जीताचें तें असे खरें घायडाय । पारखिया काय पाशीं लोपे ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे नमूं देव म्हुण जना । जालियांच्या खुणा जाणतसों ॥३॥ ॥११॥

Literal translation

Jātī-pāīkaādaraṭhāya. Hatiyērēvēṭhī-cīmsīm. Jītācē ghāya-ḍāyapārakhiyā pāśīmlōpē. Tuka says: Dēva mhuṇa janajālīyāñcyā khuṇā.

मराठी: जातीचा पाईक पाईका ओळखे — आदर तो एका त्याचे ठायीं. पोटा-साटीं हतियेरें धरितील — ते वेठीचींसीं खरे कळती. जीताचें तें — खरें घाय-डाय असे — पारखिया-च्या पाशीं काय लोपे? Tuka म्हणे: देव म्हुण जना नमूं — जालियांच्या खुणा जाणतसों.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
जातीचा पाईंक ओळखे पाइका "jātī-pāīka"
आदर तो एका त्याचे ठायीं "ādaraṭhāya"
धरितील पोटासाटीं हतियेरें "hatiyērē"
कळती तीं खरें वेठीचींसीं "vēṭhī-cīmsīm"
जीताचें तें असे खरें घायडाय "jītācē ghāya-ḍāya"
पारखिया काय पाशीं लोपे "pārakhiyā pāśīmlōpē"
नमूं देव म्हुण जना "Dēva mhuṇa jana"
जालियांच्या खुणा जाणतसों "jālīyāñcyā khuṇā"

What it means

A the-jātī's-warrior-recognizes-the-warrior-respect-only-at-his-place-those-who-hold-weapons-for-stomach-are-truly-known-as-corvée-types-the-living-one's-blow-and-grit-is-true-what-hides-before-the-alien's-bond-we-bow-saying-Dēva-to-the-people-the-marks-of-those-who-have-become-we-know abhang. Jālīyāñcyā-khuṇā-jāṇatasōm register. The closing abhang of the paika-prakaraṇa, marked with ॥११॥ at the end (the eleventh of an eleven-poem sub-series). Four claims:

  1. जाति-पाईक-ओळखे — आदर-ठायीं. Warrior-recognizes-warrior-claim. Thejātī'spāīkarecognizes (another)pāīka;ādaraonly at hisṭhāya. (One warrior recognizes another only at his proper place — a kindred-respect.)

  2. पोट-साटीं-हतियेरे — वेठीचीं. For-stomach-corvée-claim. Those who holdhatiyērē (weapons) for-pōṭa;they are recognized as truly vēṭhī-cīmsīm (corvée-types — forced-laborers without conviction). (Mercenary-warriors are recognized as merely-corvée.)

  3. जीता-घाय-डाय — पारखिया-पाशीं-लोपे. Living-one's-blow-grit-claim. Thejītācē (live-one's) is the true ghāya-ḍāya (blow-and-grit, scar-and-wound, the marks of having-fought-and-survived); whatlōpē (hides) before the pārakhiyā's (alien's) pāśīm (in-front-of, in-the-bond-of)? (The living warrior's scars cannot be hidden from the enemy.)

  4. Tuka: Dēva-म्हुण-जन-नमूं — जालिया-खुणा. We-know-the-marks-of-those-who-have-become-claim. Tuka says: wenamūm (bow to) Dēva, mhuṇa (calling-him) jana;the jālīyāñcyā khuṇā (the marks-of-those-who-have-become) we jāṇatasōm. (We bow to Dēva as if to the peoplebecause we know the marks-of-those-who-have-become. The closing claim of the paika-prakaraṇa: we recognize the genuine warriors of Hari by their marks.)

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For someone today

A true warrior recognizes another warrior, and gives him respect only where it is earned. Those who carry weapons merely to fill their stomachs are easily seen for what they are — hired hands without real conviction. But the living warrior's scars and grit are genuine, and cannot be hidden from someone who knows how to look. In the same way, Tuka says, we bow to God present in people, because we recognize the marks of those who have truly become transformed.

मराठी: एक खरा योद्धा दुसऱ्या खऱ्या योद्ध्याला ओळखतो, आणि जिथे तो आदर मिळण्यास पात्र असतो तिथेच तो आदर देतो. जे केवळ पोट भरण्यासाठी शस्त्र धरतात ते सहज ओळखता येतात — त्यांच्यात खरी निष्ठा नसते, ते केवळ भाड्याने राबणारे मजूर असतात. पण खऱ्या जिवंत योद्ध्याचे घाव आणि जिद्द खरे असतात, आणि पारखी नजरेपासून ते लपत नाहीत. त्याचप्रमाणे, तुका म्हणतात, आपण माणसांमध्ये असलेल्या देवाला नमस्कार करतो, कारण जे खऱ्या अर्थाने रूपांतरित झाले आहेत त्यांच्या खुणा आपण ओळखतो.

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