Accordingly, Sadashiva started to harass Kanhopatra and Shama.
Kanhopatra was trained in dance
Kanhopatra is believed to have composed many abhangas,
Kanhopatra speaks of her humiliation
Kanhopatra moved into a hut in Pandharpur with Hausa
Kanhopatra requested a last meeting with Vithoba before being taken.
Kanhopatra's history is known through stories passed down over centuries,
Most accounts say that Kanhopatra's body was laid at feet of Vithoba
Kanhopatra moved into a hut in Pandharpur with Hausa and lived an ascetic's life.
Kanhopatra speaks of her humiliation
and her banishment from society owing to her profession and social stature.
Kanhopatra was trained in dance
and song from early childhood so that she could join her mother's profession.
By all accounts, Kanhopatra then died at the feet of the Vithoba image,
but the circumstances were unclear.
Sadashiva Malagujar, Kanhopatra's supposed father,
heard of Kanhopatra's beauty and wished to see her dance, but Kanhopatra refused.
Kanhopatra's history is known through stories passed down over centuries,
making it hard to separate fact and fiction.
Other accounts credit the Varkari pilgrims who passed Kanhopatra's house on their way to the temple of Vithoba in Pandharpur.
The soldiers of the king besieged the temple and threatened to destroy it if Kanhopatra was not handed over to them.
Shama tried to convince him that he was the father of Kanhopatra and thus should spare them,
but Sadashiva did not believe her.
Kanhopatra is believed to have composed many abhangas,
but most were not in written form: only thirty of her abhangas or ovis survive today.
According to all versions of the legend, a tarati tree-which is
worshipped by pilgrims in her remembrance-arose on the spot where Kanhopatra was buried.
Shama suggested that Kanhopatra should visit the Badshah(Muslim king),
who will adore her beauty and gift her money and jewelry, but Kanhopatra flatly refused.
Most accounts say that Kanhopatra's body was laid at feet of Vithoba
and then buried near the southern part of the temple, in accordance with her last wishes.
One estimate places her life circa 1428 CE by relating her to a Bahamani
king of Bidar who is often associated with the Kanhopatra story-although in most accounts, that king is never explicitly named.