Lord Dattatreya

śrī saptaśatī gurucaritra adhyāya 20

(Saptashati Gurucharitra Adhyay 20 in English (IAST))

Vasudevananda Saraswati

Also known as Saptashati Gurucharitra · Saptashati Gurucharitra 20 · Saptashati Gurucharitra in Marathi

Saptashati Gurucharitra Adhyay 20. 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.

aiseṃ parisunī vipra | mhaṇe tetheṃ koṇā vara |
lādhalā bolā savistara | aikeṃ uttara siddha mhaṇe ||1||
eka daśagraṃthī vipra | śirol̤agrāmīṃ mṛtaputra |
tadbhāryesī eka vipra | sāṃge ugrakarmavipāka ||2||
tvāṃ brahmasvaśata ghetaleṃ | tayā piśācatva āleṃ |
tyāṇeṃ tujhe suta mārile | karma keleṃ pāhije tyāceṃ ||3||
de dravya dadgotrāsī | sevīṃ māsa eka gurusī |
yeru mhaṇe na majapāśīṃ | dravya gurusī sevīṃ bhāveṃ ||4||
abhayaṃkara rakṣu aiseṃ | mhaṇūnī sevitase |
svapnīṃ bhūta mārītase | rākhītase guru tisī ||5||
sāṃge tat parihāra jasā | jāgeṃpaṇeṃ karī tasā |
teṇeṃ mukta jhālā pisā | guru prasāda de tilā ||6||
tī dona putra prasave | te doghe disatī baraveṃ |
thora hotāṃ vrata karāveṃ | mhaṇunī vecitī te dravya ||7||
śreṣṭha tanayāceṃ vrata | āraṃbhitā dhanurvāta |
hovoni to vāṃkata | sannipāta na śameṃ yatneṃ ||8||
to tadbhāveṃ phiravī netra | mare hotāṃ ardharātra mātā raḍe piṭī gātra |
bodhamātra nāyake tī ||9||
divasa madhyānhīhī yetāṃ | jāl̤āyā tī na de pretā |
brahmacārī spaṣṭavaktā | tetheṃ yetāṃ jhālā tevhāṃ ||10||

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