Abhanga 2478
For today: even the great Tukārām Gatha has at least two lost/missing abhangs . Transmission across centuries inevitably involves loss; preserving-the-numbering acknowledges-the-gap.
The verse
॥१॥
Note: This source-file contains only the verse-colophon ॥१॥, with no abhang-text — second confirmed lost-abhang in this transmission of the Sant Tukaram Gatha (the first being 2386).
Literal translation
[Abhang-text absent. Only the verse-colophon ॥1॥ is preserved.]
What it means
A SECOND LOST/MISSING ABHANG IN THIS TRANSMISSION (cf. 2386).
The transliteral.org source-file contains only the colophon ॥१॥ with no abhang-text. This is the second confirmed lost-abhang in the canonical sequence — the first was at 2386. Both retain numbering-integrity in the corpus but-have-no-actual-text.
Pattern observation: Two lost-abhangs at relatively-similar-positions (2386, 2478) in this edition. Could indicate either manuscript-damage in a specific physical-codex used by transliteral.org, or editorial-decisions to-omit-doubtful-or-corrupt-verses while-preserving-numbering.
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For someone today
For today: even the great Tukārām Gatha has at least two lost/missing abhangs. Transmission across centuries inevitably involves loss; preserving-the-numbering acknowledges-the-gap.
Where this applies
- When you are working with an old handwritten or oral tradition and find that a piece of it is simply gone
- When you feel discouraged that your own records, journals, or family stories have gaps in them
- When you want to explain why a numbered sequence sometimes skips real content instead of hiding the gap
- When you're tempted to invent something to fill a gap rather than admit that a part is lost