Lord Dattatreya

śrī saptaśatī gurucaritra adhyāya 11

(Saptashati Gurucharitra Adhyay 11 in English (IAST))

Vasudevananda Saraswati

Also known as Saptashati Gurucharitra · Saptashati Gurucharitra 11 · Saptashati Gurucharitra in Marathi

Saptashati Gurucharitra Adhyay 11. The Saptashati Gurucharitra of Vasudevananda Saraswati (Tembe Swami), a condensation of the Gurucharitra into seven hundred verses. It carries the same account of Shripad Shrivallabha and Nrisimha Saraswati in a shorter compass, for those who keep a daily parayana rather than a seven-day one.

brāhmaṇa strī karaṃjapurīṃ | ho aṃbāravyā suṃdarī |
prāksaṃskāreṃ pradoṣa karī | tilā varī mādhava vipra ||1||
jhālī dṛḍhadhī garbhiṇī | bole tatvajñāna janīṃ |
śobhalī tī saṃskārānīṃ | śubhalagnīṃ prasavalī ||2||
to paḍheṃ bāl̤a oṃkāra | pitā karī tatsaṃskāra |
hotī sarva hṛṣṭatara | avatāra hā mhaṇatī ||3||
karuna nāmakarmā | nāma ghetī nṛhariśarmā |
pitā veṃcī dhana dharmā | citra narmā dāvī bāl̤a ||4||
na icchi śiṃśu bolāyā | tayā mūka mānūniyāṃ |
te karitīṃ bahu upāyā | śiśu tayāṃ dāvī khuṇā ||5||
mūkatvā ṭākī tevhāṃ | bāṃdhāla muṃjī jevhāṃ |
aseṃ mhaṇūnī karī tevhāṃ | bāla lohāceṃ suvarṇa ||6||
bola tayācā mānūna | karitī vratabaṃdhana |
mātepāśīṃ bhikṣā dāna | māge tīna veda paḍhe ||7||
jaiṃ prātaḥkāla yetāṃ | aṃdhaḥkāra jāya astā |
tevīṃ bāl̤eṃ veda paḍhatāṃ | martyatādhī lopalī ||8||
sarvāṃ parama harṣa jhālā | baṭū prārthī mātelā |
svīkāruṃ saṃnyāsālā | hotī tulā putra putrī ||9||
mātā daṃbholīpātase | aikatāṃcī paḍatase |
sāṃvaronī bolatase | krama ase saṃnyāsāsī ||10||
vedāṃta brahmacaryādi | krama ase naca ādhīṃ |
anyathā paḍe madhīṃ | putra sudhī aika mhaṇe ||11||

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