It is an excerpt from the epic Ramayana.
By the great Odia Poet Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja( Poet-Empreror Upendra Bhanja).
It describes the fisherman who
washed Sriram's feet while
helping him cross the river Sarayu
While he was proceeding for
his Forest stay
as promised to his father King Dasrath,
At the demand of Queen Keikeyi.
Untouchability at its supreme then and
the fisherman suspected that Ram wont allow
him to touch him.
So he took help of a pretext
saying that
A stone turned into a lady (Ahalya Liberation)
previously.
So unless his feet were washed,
the boat would turn into a woman.
Ram being one-wife-man, would then pressurize the fisherman to own the lady.
The only means of his livelihood, the boat now turned into a woman,
there will be no means left for him to manage his family.
As we all know...
the Bhabagrahi Sriram (The great knower of feelings)
allowed the fisherman to wash his feet.....
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