To-day a Manga has touched me, and polluted my person. I will undergo the penance meet for this, filling my heart with Vitthoba. When rage encounters me, he makes me vomit filth out of my mouth. I will now bathe in penitence, says Tuka, and look upon the sun.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2782
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents