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What do the palanquin bearers want to mitigate in?

What do the palanquin bearers want to mitigate in?

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  1. Mitigate means to reduce or make something less painful. In the poem, the palanquin bearers are carrying bride in the palanquin. They are probably singing in order to relieve the bride from the pain which she is feelings after leaving her parents home. They consider the bright to be soft, light, precious and queen.

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