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In these six couplets of PARI’s Grindmill Songs Project, Gangubai Ambore of Tadkalas village sings about summer mornings, concern for her son feeling the heat, and her husband’s pride in a virtuous wife
 
 
 
 
 In the hot month of May, this instalment of the Grindmill Songs Proiect contains songs about summer.
 
 Gangubai Ambore
 
 
 of Tadkalas village in Parbhani district sings four
 
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 in her strong, soulful voice. Her
 
 ovi
 
 opened the Grindmill Songs Project on PARI on March 8 – songs suffused with sorrow, her voice spoke of long years of loneliness — and it
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In the first of six couplets here, Gangubai sings that she sees Lord Ram on waking up in the morning when she opens the door of the house.
 
 In the second song, she says that on getting up in the morning, she sweeps the market street in their locality and the god Maruti, Lord Ram’s messenger, has arrived.
 
 In the third couplet, the singer tells us that in the morning on waking, the image of Lord Ram at the altar of the
 
 tulsi
 
 plant is the first sight she beholds.
 
 In the fourth verse, Gangubai sings that it is very hot in the month of Chaitra, and she worries about her son, who she says is the gold in her talisman. (In the Hindu lunar calendar, Chaitra begins in March/ April)
 
 In the fifth
 
 ovi
 
 , she sings that her son feels the scorching heat on his forehead and wants nice clothes for her beloved son, her Gopala. (Her son is like Lord Krishna for her).
 
 In the sixth song, the singer tells us that when she walks outside the home, she looks nowhere, and her husband is very pleased with this behaviour and feels proud of her.

सकाळी उठूनी हात माझा कवाडाला
 
 राम नदरी पडला
 
 सकाळी उठूनी झाडीत होते पेठ रस्ता
 
 राजा मारवती देव आलाय रामाचा गुमस्ता
 
 आत्ता सकाळी उठूनी हात माझा कवाडाला
 
 तुळशीच्या वृंदावनी राम नदरी पडला
 
 
 असं उन्हाळ्याचं ऊन ऊन लागत चईताचं
 
 असे माझे गं पंडीत सोन माझ्या ताईताचं
 
 
 असं उन्हाळ्याच ऊन लागत गं कपाळाला
 
 बाळा माझ्या पंडीताला दसती दंड गोपाळाला
 
 
 अशा रस्त्याने चालले पाहीना मी कोणीकड
 
 राया माझ्या देसायाला समुद्राला पाणी चढं
 
 sakāḷī uṭhūnī hāta mājhā kavāḍālā
 
 rāma nadarī paḍalā
 
 sakāḷī uṭhūnī jhāḍīta hōtē pēṭha rastā
 
 rājā māravatī dēva ālāya rāmācā gumastā
 
 āttā sakāḷī uṭhūnī hāta mājhā kavāḍālā
 
 tuḷaśīcyā vṛndāvanī rāma nadarī paḍalā
 
 asa unhāḷyāca ūna ūna lāgata cītāca
 
 asē mājhē ga paṇḍīta sōna mājhyā tāītāca
 
 asa unhāḷyāca ūna lāgata ga kapāḷālā
 
 bāḷā mājhyā paṇḍītālā dasatī daṇḍa gōpāḷālā
 
 aśā rastyānē cālalē pāhīnā mī kōṇīkaḍa
 
 rāyā mājhyā dēsāyālā samudrālā pāṇī caḍha
 
 On getting up in the morning, my hand opens the door
 
 My eyes behold Ram
 
 On getting up in the morning, I was sweeping the street in the locality
 
 King Maruti, the god, has come as Ram’s messenger
 
 Just now, on getting up in the morning, my hand opens the door
 
 I behold Ram near the
 
 tulsi
 
 altar
 
 It is so hot in the month of Chaitra
 
 Pandit, my son, is the gold of my talisman
 
 The forehead is feeling the scorching heat of summer
 
 A scarf on the head and shoulders suits Pandit, my son, my Gopala
 
 I walk on the road, I don’t look here and there
 
 My dear husband feels great, the sea water rises up as if it’s high tide
 
 
 Note: The rising sea water denotes the pride that the husband feels about having a virtuous wife.
 
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Performer/ Singer: Gangubai Ambore Village: TadkalasTaluka: PurnaDistrict: ParbhaniGender: FemaleCaste: MarathaAge: 56Education: NoneChildren: 1 daughterOccupation: From a family that had 14 acres; she was dispossessed and lived in a temple in the village.Date: These songs were recorded on April 7, 1996Poster: Shreya Katyayini

A midsummer day’s song

उन्हाळ्याचं गाणं

Tadkalas

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चला, पारीची एक सफर करूया

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A midsummer day’s song

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