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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Ovee&#039;&#039;&#039; ({{IAST|ovee}}, literally &quot;strung together&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Novetzke2013&quot;/&amp;gt;), also spelled &#039;&#039;&#039;{{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|italic=no|owi}}&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;{{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|italic=no|owee}}&#039;&#039;&#039;, is a [[poetic metre]] used in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] poems for &quot;rhythmic prose&quot;, generally used in narrative poems.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Mukherjee1998&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Sujit Mukherjee|title=A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850|date= 1998|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-1453-9|page=270}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; A poem using this metre is also called an ovee. Ovee is &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;one of &lt;/del&gt;the &quot;oldest Marathi song genres still performed today&quot;.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schultz2013&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Anna Schultz|title=Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism|date=2013|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-973083-4|page=152}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It has been in use since the 13th century in written poetry; however, oral &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;traditions &lt;/del&gt;of women&#039;s ovee pre-date the literary ovee. While literary ovee is used by the [[Varkari]] saints in [[bhakti]] (devotional) literature, women&#039;s ovee is passed via the oral tradition through generations of women, who sing them while working or for pleasure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;{{Redirect|Ovee|the former railway in Liverpool|Liverpool Overhead Railway}}&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Ovee&#039;&#039;&#039; ({{IAST|ovee}}, literally &quot;strung together&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Novetzke2013&quot;/&amp;gt;), also spelled &#039;&#039;&#039;{{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|italic=no|owi}}&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;{{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|italic=no|owee}}&#039;&#039;&#039;, is a [[poetic metre]] used in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] poems for &quot;rhythmic prose&quot;, generally used in narrative poems.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Mukherjee1998&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Sujit Mukherjee|title=A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850|date= 1998|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-1453-9|page=270}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; A poem using this metre is also called an ovee. Ovee is &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;among &lt;/ins&gt;the &quot;oldest Marathi song genres still performed today&quot;.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schultz2013&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Anna Schultz|title=Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism|date=2013|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-973083-4|page=152}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It has been in use since the 13th century in written poetry; however, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;oral &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tradition]]s &lt;/ins&gt;of women&#039;s ovee pre-date the literary ovee. While literary ovee is used by the [[Varkari]] saints in [[bhakti]] (devotional) literature, women&#039;s ovee is passed via the oral tradition through generations of women, who sing them while working or for pleasure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Forms and origins==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Forms and origins==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Jnandev.jpg|thumb|Dnyaneshwaar was the first to use ovee in literature.]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[File:Jnandev.jpg|thumb|Dnyaneshwaar was the first to use ovee in literature.]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Two forms of ovee are popular today: the {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|granthik}} (literary) ovee and the women&#039;s ovee. The literary ovee is sung without {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|[[Tala (music)|tala]]}} (rhythm) by a {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|kirtankar}} in a {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|[[kirtan]]}}, a devotional call-and-response chanting form. This is generally used for {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|italic=no|ovees}} of saints like [[Dnyaneshwar]], [[Eknath]] and [[Namdev]]. The women&#039;s ovee is sung with {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|tala}}, when the women gather for work or pleasure.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schultz2013&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Novetzke2013&quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Two forms of ovee are popular today: the {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|granthik}} (literary) ovee and the women&#039;s ovee. The literary ovee is sung without {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|[[Tala (music)|tala]]}} (rhythm) by a {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|kirtankar}} in a {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|[[kirtan]]}}, a devotional call-and-response chanting form. This is generally used for {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|italic=no|ovees}} of saints like [[Dnyaneshwar]], [[Eknath]] and [[Namdev]]. The women&#039;s ovee is sung with {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|tala}}, when the women gather for work or pleasure.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schultz2013&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Novetzke2013&quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ovee metre originated in literature with the [[Varkari]] saint, Dnyaneshwar (1275–1296).&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;GaneshThakkar2005&quot;/&amp;gt; Both his magnum opuses &#039;&#039;[[Dnyaneshwari]]&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;[[Amrutanubhav]]&#039;&#039; are composed in ovee meter.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schultz2013&quot;/&amp;gt; It is one of the two popular poetry metres used by Varkari saints, the other being {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|[[abhanga]]}} &amp;amp;ndash; &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;contributed &lt;/del&gt;to the saint, [[Tukaram]] (1577–1650).&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;GaneshThakkar2005&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|editor1=Kamala Ganesh|editor2=Usha Thakkar|title=Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India|date= 2005|publisher=Sage Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3381-6|page=92|author=Vidyut Bhagwat|chapter=Heritage of Bhakti: Sant Women&#039;s Writings in Marathi}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; While ovee is used for narrative poems, {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|abhanga}} meter is used for lyrical poems and devotional poems.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;McConnell1989&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Grant D. McConnell|title=Constitutional languages|date=1 January 1989|publisher=[[Presses Université Laval]]|isbn=978-2-7637-7186-1|page=352}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ovee metre originated in literature with the [[Varkari]] saint, Dnyaneshwar (1275–1296).&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;GaneshThakkar2005&quot;/&amp;gt; Both his magnum opuses &#039;&#039;[[Dnyaneshwari]]&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;[[Amrutanubhav]]&#039;&#039; are composed in ovee meter.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schultz2013&quot;/&amp;gt; It is one of the two popular poetry metres used by Varkari saints, the other being {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|[[abhanga]]}} &amp;amp;ndash; &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;attributed &lt;/ins&gt;to the saint, [[Tukaram]] (1577–1650).&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;GaneshThakkar2005&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|editor1=Kamala Ganesh|editor2=Usha Thakkar|title=Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India|date= 2005|publisher=Sage Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3381-6|page=92|author=Vidyut Bhagwat|chapter=Heritage of Bhakti: Sant Women&#039;s Writings in Marathi}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; While ovee is used for narrative poems, {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|abhanga}} meter is used for lyrical poems and devotional poems.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;McConnell1989&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Grant D. McConnell|title=Constitutional languages|date=1 January 1989|publisher=[[Presses Université Laval]]|isbn=978-2-7637-7186-1|page=352}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ovee metre is believed to be existed in folk song tradition even before Dnyaneshwar, which the saint adopted for his literary works.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schelling2014&quot;/&amp;gt; Though the ovee tradition pre-dates the Varkari bhakti tradition, there is little record of contents of early {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|italic=no|ovees}}. Women&#039;s {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|italic=no|ovees}} have been passed from generation to generation only through oral means.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Feldhaus1996&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Anne Feldhaus|title=Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion|year=1996|publisher=[[SUNY Press]]|isbn=978-0-7914-2837-5|page=220}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ovee metre is believed to be existed in folk song tradition even before Dnyaneshwar, which the saint adopted for his literary works.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schelling2014&quot;/&amp;gt; Though the ovee tradition pre-dates the Varkari bhakti tradition, there is little record of contents of early {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|italic=no|ovees}}. Women&#039;s {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|italic=no|ovees}} have been passed from generation to generation only through oral means.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Feldhaus1996&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Anne Feldhaus|title=Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion|year=1996|publisher=[[SUNY Press]]|isbn=978-0-7914-2837-5|page=220}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Women&amp;#039;s ovee==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Women&amp;#039;s ovee==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;ovee is thought to be in the rhythm of songs sung by women on the [[grinding stone]] ({{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|jata}}).&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;GaneshThakkar2005&quot;/&amp;gt; The ovee is sung while women use the mortar and pestle or the {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|rahat}} (a manual [[water wheel]]) to pull water from the well. The women&#039;s {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|italic=no|ovees}} are &quot;protest songs more than work songs&quot; — complaints about the hard work, unhappy marriages and &quot;despotic husbands&quot;.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schelling2014&quot;/&amp;gt; They contain sarcasm of the patriarchal society. They also contain elements of [[bhakti]] (devotion), where the singer implores God to save her from these bondages.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schelling2014&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Andrew Schelling|title=Love and The Turning Seasons: India&#039;s Poetry of Spiritual &amp;amp; Erotic Longing|date=2014|publisher=Counterpoint LLC|isbn=978-1-61902-241-6|pages=126–7}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;ovee is thought to be in the rhythm of songs sung by women on the [[grinding stone]] ({{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|jata}}).&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;GaneshThakkar2005&quot;/&amp;gt; The ovee is sung while women use the mortar and pestle or the {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|rahat}} (a manual [[water wheel]]) to pull water from the well. The women&#039;s {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|italic=no|ovees}} are &quot;protest songs more than work songs&quot; — complaints about the hard work, unhappy marriages and &quot;despotic husbands&quot;.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schelling2014&quot;/&amp;gt; They contain sarcasm of the patriarchal society. They also contain elements of [[bhakti]] (devotion), where the singer implores God to save her from these bondages.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schelling2014&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Andrew Schelling|title=Love and The Turning Seasons: India&#039;s Poetry of Spiritual &amp;amp; Erotic Longing|date=2014|publisher=Counterpoint LLC|isbn=978-1-61902-241-6|pages=126–7}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Literary ovee==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Literary ovee==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;An ovee poem has couplets (called {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|kadva}} or &#039;&#039;ovee&#039;&#039; itself). Each couplet is generally divided into four {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|charan}} (parts/lines). The first three {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|charans}} are rhymed and have same number of &#039;&#039;matras&#039;&#039; (instants) composed of six or eight letters (vary from eight to ten syllables), while the fourth is &quot;open&quot; (unrhymed with the rest), shorter with fewer {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|matras}} and generally has four letters (vary from four to six syllables). For example, the &#039;&#039;Dnyaneshwari&#039;&#039; has eight {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|matras}} in the first three {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|charans}} and four to six in the last {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|charan}}. It is thus called a couplet of three and a half {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|charans}}. In contrast, an {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|abhanga}} has four {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|charans}} with eight letters each.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Sharma2000&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Arvind Sharma|title=Women Saints in World Religions|date=2000|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-4619-5|page=177}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schultz2013&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Wakankar2010&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Milind Wakankar|title=Subalternity and Religion: The Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymCLAgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA189|date=25 February 2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-16655-7|page=189}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;An ovee poem has couplets (called {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|kadva}} or &#039;&#039;ovee&#039;&#039; itself). Each couplet is generally divided into four {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|charan}} (parts/lines). The first three {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|charans}} are rhymed and have same number of &#039;&#039;matras&#039;&#039; (instants) composed of six or eight letters (vary from eight to ten syllables), while the fourth is &quot;open&quot; (unrhymed with the rest), shorter with fewer {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|matras}} and generally has four letters (vary from four to six syllables). For example, the &#039;&#039;Dnyaneshwari&#039;&#039; has eight {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|matras}} in the first three {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|charans}} and four to six in the last {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|charan}}. It is thus called a couplet of three and a half {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|charans}}. In contrast, an {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|abhanga}} has four {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|charans}} with eight letters each.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Sharma2000&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Arvind Sharma|title=Women Saints in World Religions|date=2000|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-4619-5|page=177}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Schultz2013&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Wakankar2010&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Milind Wakankar|title=Subalternity and Religion: The Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymCLAgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA189|date=25 February 2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-16655-7|page=189}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Example of an ovee from &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Dnyaneshwari&amp;#039;&amp;#039;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Example of an ovee from &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Dnyaneshwari&amp;#039;&amp;#039;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l30&quot;&gt;Line 30:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 34:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;/poem&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;/poem&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ovee was used by another saint, Eknath (1533–1599), too; however, while Dnyaneshwar&#039;s ovee has three and a half parts, Ekanath&#039;s ovee has four and a half parts. Dnyaneshwar&#039;s ovee is considered one of the foremost compositions in the ovee metre. The {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|abhanga}} metre is said to have originated from Dnyaneshwar&#039;s ovee metre.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Ranade1983&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=R. D. Ranade|title=Mysticism in India: The Poet-Saints of Maharashtra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qURxehvO4tUC&amp;amp;pg=PA36|year=1983|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-1686-1|page=36}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ovee was used by another saint, Eknath (1533–1599), too; however, while Dnyaneshwar&#039;s ovee has three and a half parts, Ekanath&#039;s ovee has four and a half parts. Dnyaneshwar&#039;s ovee is considered one of the foremost compositions in the ovee metre. The {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|abhanga}} metre is said to have originated from Dnyaneshwar&#039;s ovee metre.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Ranade1983&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=R. D. Ranade|title=Mysticism in India: The Poet-Saints of Maharashtra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qURxehvO4tUC&amp;amp;pg=PA36|year=1983|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-1686-1|page=36}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|abhanga}} is often considered as a form of the ovee.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Novetzke2013&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Christian Lee Novetzke|title=Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India|pages=275, 279|date=13 August 2013|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=978-0-231-51256-5}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Dilip Chitre]] considers the {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|abhanga}} tradition is strongly influenced by the women&#039;s ovee. S. G. Tulpule says the {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|abhanga}} &quot;is nothing but a prolongation of the original ovee, its name signifying continuity of the essential ovee units&quot;. [[Janabai]]&#039;s {{&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;transl&lt;/del&gt;|mr|abhangas}} borrow themes of women&#039;s household chores of grinding and pounding from the women&#039;s ovee tradition and asks [[Vithoba]], the patron god of the Varkari tradition, to help her in her chores.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Feldhaus1996&quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|abhanga}} is often considered as a form of the ovee.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Novetzke2013&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Christian Lee Novetzke|title=Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India|pages=275, 279|date=13 August 2013|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=978-0-231-51256-5}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Dilip Chitre]] considers the {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|abhanga}} tradition is strongly influenced by the women&#039;s ovee. S. G. Tulpule says the {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|abhanga}} &quot;is nothing but a prolongation of the original ovee, its name signifying continuity of the essential ovee units&quot;. [[Janabai]]&#039;s {{&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Transliteration&lt;/ins&gt;|mr|abhangas}} borrow themes of women&#039;s household chores of grinding and pounding from the women&#039;s ovee tradition and asks [[Vithoba]], the patron god of the Varkari tradition, to help her in her chores.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Feldhaus1996&quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==References==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==References==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Ovee&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; ({{IAST|ovee}}, literally &amp;quot;strung together&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Novetzke2013&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;), also spelled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;{{transl|mr|italic=no|owi}}&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; or &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;{{transl|mr|italic=no|owee}}&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, is a [[poetic metre]] used in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] poems for &amp;quot;rhythmic prose&amp;quot;, generally used in narrative poems.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Mukherjee1998&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Sujit Mukherjee|title=A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850|date= 1998|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-1453-9|page=270}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; A poem using this metre is also called an ovee. Ovee is one of the &amp;quot;oldest Marathi song genres still performed today&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Schultz2013&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Anna Schultz|title=Singing a Hindu Nation: Marathi Devotional Performance and Nationalism|date=2013|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-973083-4|page=152}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It has been in use since the 13th century in written poetry; however, oral traditions of women&amp;#039;s ovee pre-date the literary ovee. While literary ovee is used by the [[Varkari]] saints in [[bhakti]] (devotional) literature, women&amp;#039;s ovee is passed via the oral tradition through generations of women, who sing them while working or for pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Forms and origins==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Jnandev.jpg|thumb|Dnyaneshwaar was the first to use ovee in literature.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Two forms of ovee are popular today: the {{transl|mr|granthik}} (literary) ovee and the women&amp;#039;s ovee. The literary ovee is sung without {{transl|mr|[[Tala (music)|tala]]}} (rhythm) by a {{transl|mr|kirtankar}} in a {{transl|mr|[[kirtan]]}}, a devotional call-and-response chanting form. This is generally used for {{transl|mr|italic=no|ovees}} of saints like [[Dnyaneshwar]], [[Eknath]] and [[Namdev]]. The women&amp;#039;s ovee is sung with {{transl|mr|tala}}, when the women gather for work or pleasure.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Schultz2013&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Novetzke2013&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The ovee metre originated in literature with the [[Varkari]] saint, Dnyaneshwar (1275–1296).&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;GaneshThakkar2005&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Both his magnum opuses &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Dnyaneshwari]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Amrutanubhav]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; are composed in ovee meter.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Schultz2013&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; It is one of the two popular poetry metres used by Varkari saints, the other being {{transl|mr|[[abhanga]]}} &amp;amp;ndash; contributed to the saint, [[Tukaram]] (1577–1650).&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;GaneshThakkar2005&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|editor1=Kamala Ganesh|editor2=Usha Thakkar|title=Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India|date= 2005|publisher=Sage Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3381-6|page=92|author=Vidyut Bhagwat|chapter=Heritage of Bhakti: Sant Women&amp;#039;s Writings in Marathi}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; While ovee is used for narrative poems, {{transl|mr|abhanga}} meter is used for lyrical poems and devotional poems.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;McConnell1989&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Grant D. McConnell|title=Constitutional languages|date=1 January 1989|publisher=[[Presses Université Laval]]|isbn=978-2-7637-7186-1|page=352}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The ovee metre is believed to be existed in folk song tradition even before Dnyaneshwar, which the saint adopted for his literary works.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Schelling2014&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; Though the ovee tradition pre-dates the Varkari bhakti tradition, there is little record of contents of early {{transl|mr|italic=no|ovees}}. Women&amp;#039;s {{transl|mr|italic=no|ovees}} have been passed from generation to generation only through oral means.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Feldhaus1996&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Anne Feldhaus|title=Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion|year=1996|publisher=[[SUNY Press]]|isbn=978-0-7914-2837-5|page=220}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Women&amp;#039;s ovee==&lt;br /&gt;
ovee is thought to be in the rhythm of songs sung by women on the [[grinding stone]] ({{transl|mr|jata}}).&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;GaneshThakkar2005&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; The ovee is sung while women use the mortar and pestle or the {{transl|mr|rahat}} (a manual [[water wheel]]) to pull water from the well. The women&amp;#039;s {{transl|mr|italic=no|ovees}} are &amp;quot;protest songs more than work songs&amp;quot; — complaints about the hard work, unhappy marriages and &amp;quot;despotic husbands&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Schelling2014&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; They contain sarcasm of the patriarchal society. They also contain elements of [[bhakti]] (devotion), where the singer implores God to save her from these bondages.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Schelling2014&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Andrew Schelling|title=Love and The Turning Seasons: India&amp;#039;s Poetry of Spiritual &amp;amp; Erotic Longing|date=2014|publisher=Counterpoint LLC|isbn=978-1-61902-241-6|pages=126–7}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Literary ovee==&lt;br /&gt;
An ovee poem has couplets (called {{transl|mr|kadva}} or &amp;#039;&amp;#039;ovee&amp;#039;&amp;#039; itself). Each couplet is generally divided into four {{transl|mr|charan}} (parts/lines). The first three {{transl|mr|charans}} are rhymed and have same number of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;matras&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (instants) composed of six or eight letters (vary from eight to ten syllables), while the fourth is &amp;quot;open&amp;quot; (unrhymed with the rest), shorter with fewer {{transl|mr|matras}} and generally has four letters (vary from four to six syllables). For example, the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Dnyaneshwari&amp;#039;&amp;#039; has eight {{transl|mr|matras}} in the first three {{transl|mr|charans}} and four to six in the last {{transl|mr|charan}}. It is thus called a couplet of three and a half {{transl|mr|charans}}. In contrast, an {{transl|mr|abhanga}} has four {{transl|mr|charans}} with eight letters each.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Sharma2000&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Arvind Sharma|title=Women Saints in World Religions|date=2000|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-4619-5|page=177}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Schultz2013&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Wakankar2010&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Milind Wakankar|title=Subalternity and Religion: The Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymCLAgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA189|date=25 February 2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-16655-7|page=189}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Example of an ovee from &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Dnyaneshwari&amp;#039;&amp;#039;:&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;poem&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Devā Tūchi Gaṇeshū |&lt;br /&gt;
Sakalārthamatiprakāshū |&lt;br /&gt;
Mhaṇe Nivṛtti Dāsū |&lt;br /&gt;
Avadhārijojē ||2||&lt;br /&gt;
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देवा तूंचि गणेशु | &lt;br /&gt;
सकलमति प्रकाशु | &lt;br /&gt;
म्हणे निवृत्ति दासु | &lt;br /&gt;
अवधारिजो जी ||2||&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/poem&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The ovee was used by another saint, Eknath (1533–1599), too; however, while Dnyaneshwar&amp;#039;s ovee has three and a half parts, Ekanath&amp;#039;s ovee has four and a half parts. Dnyaneshwar&amp;#039;s ovee is considered one of the foremost compositions in the ovee metre. The {{transl|mr|abhanga}} metre is said to have originated from Dnyaneshwar&amp;#039;s ovee metre.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ranade1983&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=R. D. Ranade|title=Mysticism in India: The Poet-Saints of Maharashtra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qURxehvO4tUC&amp;amp;pg=PA36|year=1983|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-1686-1|page=36}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The {{transl|mr|abhanga}} is often considered as a form of the ovee.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Novetzke2013&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Christian Lee Novetzke|title=Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India|pages=275, 279|date=13 August 2013|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=978-0-231-51256-5}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; [[Dilip Chitre]] considers the {{transl|mr|abhanga}} tradition is strongly influenced by the women&amp;#039;s ovee. S. G. Tulpule says the {{transl|mr|abhanga}} &amp;quot;is nothing but a prolongation of the original ovee, its name signifying continuity of the essential ovee units&amp;quot;. [[Janabai]]&amp;#039;s {{transl|mr|abhangas}} borrow themes of women&amp;#039;s household chores of grinding and pounding from the women&amp;#039;s ovee tradition and asks [[Vithoba]], the patron god of the Varkari tradition, to help her in her chores.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Feldhaus1996&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
{{Reflist|30em}}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Hindu music]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Hindu poetry]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Poetic rhythm]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Warkari]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Marathi-language literature]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Indian poetics]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Stanzaic form]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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