Eknath’s Bhakti verse held that Ganga bathing purifies outcastes

Evidence

(Antyajancha vital jyasi/ Gangasnane shuddhatva tyasi—Eknathi Bhagavat, a.28, o.191). This verse with reference to the source figures in the 1937 edition of AoC as a footnote at this point. This Marathi verse has been transcribed and translated by Debroy as: “Those among outcastes who are impure/ can be purified by bathing in the Ganga.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1279

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Kabir, a weaver-born poet, questioned the caste system through song and Bhakti — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1171; Eknath’s Bhagavat rendered the Sanskrit Purana in Marathi abhanga verse.; Ambedkar inherited a millennia-deep anticaste tradition spanning Buddhists, Veerashaivas, and Bhakti saints — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 84
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Kabir, a weaver-born poet, questioned the caste system through song and Bhakti — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1171; Eknath’s Bhagavat rendered the Sanskrit Purana in Marathi abhanga verse.; Ambedkar inherited a millennia-deep anticaste tradition spanning Buddhists, Veerashaivas, and Bhakti saints — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 84