Invoking the sacred fire...

Chapter 6The Saint-Poets
Chokhamela and Soyarabai
चोखामेळा
Chokhamela, a saint-poet born into the Mahar community treated as untouchable, and his wife Soyarabai composed abhangs voicing devotion to Vitthal alongside the pain of social exclusion, making them enduring figures of the tradition's egalitarian ideals.