Janabai: By my life I will not let you go

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By my life I will not let you go

by Janabai
(1298 - 1350?) Timeline

English version by
Sarah Sellergren

Original Language
Marathi

Yoga / Hindu : Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama)

14th Century

I caught the thief of Pandhari
by tying a rope around his neck.

I made my heart the prison cell
and locked him up inside.

I bound him firmly with the Word,
I fettered his holy feet,

I thrashed him, whipped him
with the word so'ham
while Vitthal complained bitterly.

Sorry, O Lord,
says Jani,
by my life I will not let you go.

-- from Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion, Edited by Anne Feldhaus

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Themes

Heart

Recommended Books

	Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion, Edited by Anne Feldhaus
	Women Saints in World Religions, Edited by Arvind Sharma
	Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present: Volume 1, Edited by Susie Tharu / Edited by K. Lalita

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