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Shri Guru Charitra begins with the story of a character called Naamdharak, who is a personification of a common man, buried with mundane burdens. Naamdharak is troubled with the worldly pains and sets out in search of a Guru for some spiritual guidance.
Saraswati Gangadhar (16th century) wrote Shri GuruCharitra, a book on the life of Narasimha Saraswati who is considered to be the second avatar of Dattatreya. Nothing much is known about Gangadhar's life other than through the Shri GuruCharitra. Guru-Charitra means "Guru's Life Story" or "Guru's Biography".
The Marathi translation by Sane Guruji is a complete translation. [1] In the meantime, Narayana Govindarao Peshwe and Ganpath Govindarao Peshwe, a lawyer duo from Thulajapur, translated a Hindi translation of the Kural text by Kshemananda into Marathi and published it in the journal Lokamitra from July 1929 to June 1930. However, they ...
The first Marathi translation was made by Vaidyanath Sarma under the supervision of the Serampore missionaries and William Carey at Fort William College. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] However Carey's translation was found lacking, [ 4 ] and was revised by two American missionaries, Gordon Hall and Samuel Newell in 1826, with a subsequent edition in 1830.
Shri Narasimha Saraswati [3] (birth name - Shaligramadeva or Narhari) lived from 1378 to 1459 (Shaka 1300 to Shaka 1380). [4] Saraswati was born into a Deshastha Brahmin family in Karanjapura, modern-day Lad-Karanja (Karanja) in the Washim district, which is a part of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India. [5]
Saraswati Gangadhar - 16th Century poet and author of Gurucharitra. Even though his mother tongue was Kannada, he was considered a prolific writer in Marathi. Dasopant (1551–1615) - Marathi poet-saint and prolific writer of Varkari sect.; also known as Daso Digambar [13]
The most comprehensive Marathi-English dictionaries was compiled by Captain James Thomas Molesworth and Major Thomas Candy in 1831. The book is still in print nearly two centuries after its publication. [7] [18] The colonial authorities also worked on standardizing Marathi under the leadership of Molesworth.
Baba Padmanji Mule, better known as Baba Padmanji (1831 - 29 August 1906) was an Indian writer, novelist, religious preacher and Protestant Christian reformer in the 19th-century Bombay Presidency, who is known for contributing to Marathi literature. [1]