Bhaktavijaya: Stories of Indian Saints
by Justin E. Abbott | 1933 | 306,590 words
This is the English translation of Bhaktavijaya which is a Marathi poem written by Mahipati in 40,000 lines. The text documents the legends of Indian saints from various backgrounds and extensively covers figures like Ekanath, Tukaram, and Ramadasa, highlighting their contributions to scholarship, philosophy, poetry, and social reform. The Bhaktavi...
43.20: Vithoba reinstalled at Pandharpur
206b. The Husband of Rukmini said to Bhanudas, ‘You have suffered much because of me.
207. Take me up now on your shoulder and carry me to Pandharpur. There at the door of Pundalik’s shrine I will dwell for ever.’
208. Ram [Rama] Raja now clasped the feet of the god and cried, ‘Are You leaving me, and going away?’ The god replied, ‘You have committed a wrong, though unintentionally it is true.
209. You had performed some good deeds (in your former births) and therefore I remained here with you for these many days. But I must go now. Henceforth keep My form in remembrance in your heart with love.’
210. Bhanudas now said to the Husband of Rukmini, ‘How am I able to lift and carry You? Moreover I have not the kingly power to collect many men to bear You.’
211. The Merciful to the humble replied, ‘I am entirely at your service. All My powers are now yours, My bhakta’
212. With this the Life of the world assumed a diminutive form and said to Bhanudas, ‘Put me in your deer-skin bag, and take me along.’
213. Bhanudas went at once for his bag and placed Chakrapani (Holder of the disk, Krishna) inside.