Late 20th-century scholarship of Tukaram, and translations of his Abhanga poem, affirm his pantheistic Vedantic view. Tukaram's Abhanga 2877, as translated by Shri Gurudev Ranade of Nimbal states, for example, "The Vedanta has said that the whole universe is filled by God. All sciences have proclaimed that God has filled the whole world.
The Sanskrit term Tribhanga means Three Bhanga and according to K. M. Varma the term Tribhanga was in the original Shilpa Shastras literature not the name of a particular standing position but used, contrary to the modern usage in art history, to describe the group of the “Three Bhangas”, namely Abhanga, Samabhanga, and Atibhanga. Notes