Abhanga 2172
This is an editorial page, not a verse. There is no life-lesson here, only the recognition that the Gatha follows an editorial convention of marking the close of a self-contained unit with a colophon like this.
The verse
॥१॥
Literal translation
॥१॥ — editorial colophon (closes 2171 as a self-contained unit).
Word-by-word gloss
| Marathi | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ॥१॥ | colophon — stand-alone editorial closure-marker after 2171 |
What it means
Editorial-colophon page following 2171. This entry preserves a colophon-only page in the transliteral.org source (sources/marathi/2172.txt) — a ॥१॥ numbering-marker placed on its own line, following the unusually-long 5+1-verse abhang at 2171 (the Pandharī-Bhīmā-snāna-sama-pāya teaching).
Note that the immediately-preceding 2171 already-numbered its-own-verses as ॥1॥ through ॥5॥, so this stand-alone ॥1॥ on 2172 is not a verse-count for 2171 (those are already self-contained). Rather, it appears to function as a unit-closure marker — confirming that 2171 is to be treated as one-complete-unit (= 1 abhang, despite its-5+1-verses).
This pattern recurs at 2168 (just two-pages-earlier) and at several other places in this section of the Gatha (1994, 2022, 2027, 2029, 2033, 2041, 2168 ...): the editor inserts a stand-alone numerical-marker after a particularly-self-contained abhang, signaling its independence from the surrounding-flow.
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For someone today
This is an editorial page, not a verse. There is no life-lesson here, only the recognition that the Gatha follows an editorial convention of marking the close of a self-contained unit with a colophon like this.
मराठी: हे एक संपादकीय पान आहे, अभंग नाही. यातून कोणताही जीवनबोध मिळत नाही, फक्त एवढंच समजतं की गाथेच्या संपादकीय पद्धतीत असा एकेरी आकडा एखाद्या स्वतंत्र भागाच्या समाप्तीचं चिन्ह म्हणून वापरला जातो.
Where this applies
- When you finish reading a long, many-versed abhang like 2171 and see a lone numeral right after it, and want to understand that it confirms the whole piece is one unit rather than the start of a new count.
- When you study old manuscripts and notice a numbering mark that does not match the verses just before it, and remember editors sometimes use such marks purely as a closing signal.
- When you are organizing a long piece of writing of your own and need a small, clear way to show a reader that a section has truly ended.