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संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 1077 of 4582

Abhanga 1077

While playing this game, I lost my blanket — the one thing that covered and protected me. So I grabbed Kanhoba by the collar and demanded he account for it and give it back. Now I stand exposed, naked before everyone, with nothing left to hide behind. Tuka says his understanding is still raw and immature — it hasn't yet settled into its rightful place.

When playing sura-kavaḍī, blanket lost — and you have to recognize this register
When fell on Kānhōbā's throat — give jhāḍā — and you accept this image
When naked, exposed, came out — and you allow this image

The verse

खेळों लागलों सुरकवडी । माझी घोंगडी हारपली ॥१॥ कान्होबाचे पडिलों गळां । घेई गोपाळा देई झाडा ॥ध्रु.॥ मी तों हागे उघडा जालों । अवघ्या आलों बाहेरी ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे बुद्धि काची । नाहीं ठायींची मजपाशीं ॥३॥

Literal translation

Sura-kavaḍīghōngaḍī hārapalī. Kānhōbā — gaḷājhāḍā. Ughaḍābāhērī. Tuka says: buddhi kācīṭhāyīñcī.

मराठी: सुर-कवडी खेळों लागलों — माझी घोंगडी हारपली. Kānhōbāचे गळां पडिलों — घेई, गोपाळा, झाडा देई. मी तों हागे उघडा जालों — अवघ्या बाहेरी आलों. Tuka म्हणे: बुद्धि काची — नाहीं ठायींची मज-पाशीं.

Word-by-word gloss
Marathi Meaning
खेळों लागलों सुरकवडी "sura-kavaḍī"
माझी घोंगडी हारपली "ghōngaḍī hārapalī"
कान्होबाचे पडिलों गळां "Kānhōbā — gaḷā"
घेई गोपाळा देई झाडा "jhāḍā"
मी तों हागे उघडा जालों "ughaḍā"
अवघ्या आलों बाहेरी "bāhērī"
बुद्धि काची "buddhi kācī"
नाहीं ठायींची मजपाशीं "ṭhāyīñcī"

What it means

Ghōngaḍyācē abhanga 3. The sura-kavaḍī game (children's hide-and-seek). Four claims:

  1. सुर-कवडी — घोंगडी-हारपली. Blanket-lost-claim. I started playingsura-kavaḍī;my ghōngaḍī was hārapalī. (In the play, the blanket got lost.)

  2. Kānhōbा-गळ — झाडा-देई. Give-account-claim. I fell on Kānhōbā'sgaḷā;gōpāḷā, take, give jhāḍā (shake-out, give-account, hand-back). (I caught Krishna by the throat:give it back, account for it!)

  3. उघडा — बाहेरी. Naked-exposed-claim. I have becomeughaḍā (exposed, naked); came out of everythingbāhērī (outside).

  4. Tuka: बुद्धि-काची — ठायीं-नाहीं. Buddhi-immature-claim. Tuka says: buddhi iskācī (raw, immature, not-fully-cooked); not at-its-ṭhāyīñcīwith me.

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For someone today

While playing this game, I lost my blanket — the one thing that covered and protected me. So I grabbed Kanhoba by the collar and demanded he account for it and give it back. Now I stand exposed, naked before everyone, with nothing left to hide behind. Tuka says his understanding is still raw and immature — it hasn't yet settled into its rightful place.

मराठी: हा खेळ खेळता खेळता माझी घोंगडी हरवली — जी मला झाकून, सांभाळून ठेवत होती. म्हणून मी कान्होबाच्या गळ्यात पडलो आणि म्हणालो, हिशोब दे, ती परत दे. आता मी सर्वांसमोर उघडा, बाहेर पडलेला असा उभा आहे, लपायला काहीच शिल्लक नाही. तुका म्हणतात, माझी बुद्धी अजून कच्ची आहे — ती अजून आपल्या जागी स्थिरावलेली नाही.

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