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Abhanga 944Social Criticism

The Insignificance of Caste

मराठी मूळ · गाथा 121

कन्या गो करी कथेचा विकरा । चांडाळ तो खरा तया नांवें ॥१॥

गुण अवगुण हे दोन्ही प्रमाण । यातिशीं कारण नाहीं देवा ॥२॥

आशाबद्ध नये करूं तें करिती । तुका म्हणे जाती नरकामधीं ॥३॥

Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)

English Translation · I.P. 944

ONE who sells his daughter, his cow or his sermon, he is rightly called a low-caste wretch. The standards of goodness are merits and demerits; God considers not a man's caste. Tuka says, They who do unlawful deeds, these are they who go down into hell.

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

समाज टीका

Social Criticism

Rebuke of hypocrisy, caste pride, false teachers, greed, and religious pretence.

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