राम
Abhanga 370Confession and Sin

The Sense of Sin

English Translation · I.P. 370

MY spirit is carried away by desire; it suffers me not to look on thy face; fain would my heart break for sorrow. Why bast thou made me like a young wife in her husband’s house ? I have no power, no authority of my own. In the morning when I feel I ought to visit thee, I cannot steal to thee, my desire continues unsatisfied. Thus it seems that all my toils are wasted; all that I have spent is lost, says Tuka.

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

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Confession and Sin

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