संत साहित्य · Tukārām · Abhanga 2029 of 4582

Abhanga 2029

This page is only a closing mark showing that abhang 2028 is a complete single verse on its own; the actual teaching, to stay alert because death already stands beside you, belongs to 2028.

When you are studying how the Gatha's editors grouped and numbered the abhangs.

When you come across a nearly blank page while reading the collection in order.

When you want to confirm that the mortality warning in 2028 is a self-contained teaching rather than part of a longer sequence.

The verse

॥१॥

Literal translation

॥1॥ — colophon-only page.

Word-by-word gloss

Marathi	Meaning
॥१॥	"colophon-1 — confirms 1-abhang sub-cluster (2028 alone — kāḷa-stands-right-next-to-you-wake-up)"

What it means

Colophon-only page abhang. EDITORIAL ARTIFACT.

This source-page contains only the colophon ॥१॥, marking abhang 2028 as a 1-abhang sub-cluster. Fourth documented colophon-only-page in this corpus (after 1994, 2022, 2027), confirming the editor's-systematic-use of stand-alone-numbering for-particularly-self-contained-abhangs.

2028's content: a 5-verse mortality-warning — kāḷa-stands-right-next-blindfolding-pegging-blocking-Rāma-from-the-tongue. The Gatha-editor isolated this stark warning as a complete cluster.

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For someone today

This is an editorial-artifact. It documents the Gatha's cluster-numbering convention.

Where this applies

When you are reading straight through the Gatha and wonder why a page seems to have almost nothing on it
When you want to know whether a short abhang was meant to stand alone or continue into the next verse
When you are tracing how the compilers of the Gatha organized and numbered Tukaram's verses

Bhakti colophon-only-page