Janabai

Janābāi (c. 1270s/80s – 1350) was a Marāthi sant and poet in the Hindu tradition in India. Quotes Let me not be sad because I am born a woman In this world; many saints suffer in this way. Reported in Susie Tharu and K. Lalita (eds.) Women Writing in India (New York: The Feminist Press, 1991) p. 82 Can the river reject its fish? Can the mother spurn her child? Gangā gelī sindhūpāsī (4 MN). Translated by Sarah Sellergren, "Janābāī and Kānhopātrā: A Study of Two Women Sants", in Anne Feldhaus (ed.) Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion (Albany: U of New York P, 1996) p. 222 External links Category:1350s deaths Category:Poets from India Category:Women from India