Grindmill songs of Maharashtra — Song #52437 by Nilangekar Nagin


	Daughter does not get enough to eat in her in-laws’ house.She is always starved. So she has to make do with the wild fruits on her way to the field. Sometimes, her parents’village is next to hers, but her plight does not change.

घरी वासाचे तांदूळ काय करता असून
सासुरवाशी माझी मैना
gharī vāsācē tāndūḷa kāya karatā asūna
sāsuravāśī mājhī mainā

✎ Fragrant rice at home, but what is the use
My Maina* is sasurvashin*
▷ (घरी)(वासाचे)(तांदूळ) why (करता)(असून)
▷ (सासुरवाशी) my Mina

pas de traduction en français

Maina	The name of a bird. Commonly used as a term of endearment for the dear daughter
sasurvashin ➡ sasurvashins	A girl dwelling in the house of her husband’s father. Figuratively, a person absolutely at the beck and call of the in-law family

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Project ♪♪ सांगते बाई तुला - Sāṅgatē bāī tulā - I tell you woman! ♪♪