Under the influence of Tukaram’s poetry, we can see the poetic genius of a great many flourishing on the sidelines of Tukaram’s narrative. Instances of such ‘satelite poets’ – if that would be an appropriate term to use in this context – around Tukaram’s central poetic figure are his younger brother Kanhoba, his followers Bahinabai and Rameshwar Bhatt among many others.
Among these three, Kanhoba being the family member was witness to almost all major developments in Tukaram’s life right from his childhood. Thus Kanhoba’s poems throw significant light on Tukaram as a person in his private life. A number of aspects of Tukaram’s domestic life stand out prominently from Kanhoba’s poems which make us reconsider a number of popular beliefs regarding Tukaram’s life. For instance, in most of the popular narratives related to Tukaram, he is made out to be a person who never bothered about his family. However, when one reads Kanhoba’s poems, one gets to see an entirely different Tukaram emerging in front of our eyes- Tukaram who is a loving elder brother, a responsible family head, an affectionate man who is equally loved by his family! A Tukaram who is inconceivable but for the words for his own younger brother’s account!
Among Kanhoba’s poems the most important are, perhaps, the poems that he wrote on Tukaram’s ultimate departure from this world. These elegies are on there own a major contribution to Indian poetry and explore a number of themes related to devotion, deity-devotee relationship, divine justice quite unconventionally, which makes them strikingly iconoclastic on occasions as they value the fraternal love way superior over the love for the Creator. For Kanhoba, Tukaram weighs way over the Lord, something that all of Tukaram’s contemporaries seem to have agreed upon during his later years, which could be well the key to resolving the mystery behind Tukaram’s untimely departure!
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Among these three, Kanhoba being the family member was witness to almost all major developments in Tukaram’s life right from his childhood. Thus Kanhoba’s poems throw significant light on Tukaram as a person in his private life. A number of aspects of Tukaram’s domestic life stand out prominently from Kanhoba’s poems which make us reconsider a number of popular beliefs regarding Tukaram’s life. For instance, in most of the popular narratives related to Tukaram, he is made out to be a person who never bothered about his family. However, when one reads Kanhoba’s poems, one gets to see an entirely different Tukaram emerging in front of our eyes- Tukaram who is a loving elder brother, a responsible family head, an affectionate man who is equally loved by his family! A Tukaram who is inconceivable but for the words for his own younger brother’s account!
Among Kanhoba’s poems the most important are, perhaps, the poems that he wrote on Tukaram’s ultimate departure from this world. These elegies are on there own a major contribution to Indian poetry and explore a number of themes related to devotion, deity-devotee relationship, divine justice quite unconventionally, which makes them strikingly iconoclastic on occasions as they value the fraternal love way superior over the love for the Creator. For Kanhoba, Tukaram weighs way over the Lord, something that all of Tukaram’s contemporaries seem to have agreed upon during his later years, which could be well the key to resolving the mystery behind Tukaram’s untimely departure!
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kanhoba
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