Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1094

Mainly his mother bore him in her womb; she brought forth the handle of an axe; why did she not stifle him at his birth? She begot a mischievous being, a pollution to his forefathers. Tuka says, The mother of an impious man goes to hell.

Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents