![]() This experience was to determine the rest of Bahina's life. There, Bahina heard the devotional verses of the Warkari teacher Tukaram (c.1608-1650), recited not in the Sanskrit of Brahmin worship, but in the vernacular and so accessible to all. After a long journey and two years in a town where her husband performed religious services, the family arrived in the holy city of Kolhapur. When she was 9, Bahinabai, her immediate family and her husband had to leave their village because of a family quarrel. Hailing from a farmer?s household, most of her poems are based on farming, land, joy and sorrow of farmers, trees, animals and the nature.īahina, at the age of 5, was married to a 30-year-old Brahmin, a widower and relative. ![]() Her poetry brings alive her surroundings through the Ahirani dialect which is spoken in those parts of the State. Biographyīahinabai Chaudhari (Devanagari: ?) or Bahinabai Nathuji Chaudhari, was a noted Marathi poetess from Maharashtra, India.īahinabai was born to a Brahmin family in the village of Aasod in the district of Jalgaon. Poems were written mainly in English language. Bahinabai Chaudhari poet from India was born on August 24, 1880, had 71 years and died on December 3, 1951.
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