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Chokhamela and Soyarabai
Chapter 6
The 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.
Invoking the sacred fire...