Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Gora Cumbhar

by Cavelly Venkata Ramaswamie

GORA CUMBHAR.

This poet was an inhabitant of Samantvadi, a village in the district of Tulajapore, and was a common gardener by profession. It is said, that by intense devotion to the goddess, he obtained the gift of wisdom, and became a votary of the Pandrapore god. He composed many Maharatta verses, elucidating and praising the miracles of the diety. He died at the early age of fif- teen that Pandrapore, having acquired the character of a very religious man.

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