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Abhanga 369Confession and Sin

The Sense of Sin

English Translation · I.P. 369

THAT a mother should abandon her living child shows something strange in the child himself. Is he mute or deaf? What is lacking in Narayana that he cannot understand us ? He will not protect me for a moment, so evil a season of misfortune has overtaken me. Tuka says, There is no sweet savour in my speech; it is like bitter fruit.

Tr. J. Nelson Fraser & K.B. Marathe (1909)

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Confession and Sin

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