The plot, involving a woman who had lived with a man as his wife without ever having married, and who had dedicated her life to charity afterwards, was a volatile social subject
हा जोडवृक्ष म्हणजे देशमुख घराण्यातील एक स्त्री आणि तिच्याशी लग्न होऊ न शकल्याने जोगी बनलेला तिचा प्रियकर - ही लोकभावना येथे काव्यविषय बनली आहे.