Lord Dattatreya

śrī saptaśatī gurucaritra adhyāya 8

(Saptashati Gurucharitra Adhyay 8 in English (IAST))

Vasudevananda Saraswati

Also known as Saptashati Gurucharitra · Saptashati Gurucharitra 8 · Saptashati Gurucharitra in Marathi

Saptashati Gurucharitra Adhyay 8. 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. This adhyay is named in its colophon for शनिप्रदोषव्रतकथनं.

siddha saṃkṣepeṃ sāṃgata | śrīpāda tethūni yeta |
kṛṣṇātīrīṃ hoyī sthita | kurupurāṃta tāraka ||1||
mūrkha prajāsamaveta | lokaniṃdeneṃ ho trasta |
jīva dyāyā kṛṣṇeṃta | ākasmāta dekhe deva ||2||
prabhū tilā niropitī | ātmahatyā dustara mhaṇatī |
janmāṃtarīṃ suputrāptī | vhāyā prārthī maga tī nārī ||3||
tanniṣṭhā ol̤akhūna | guru sāṃgatī ākhyāna |
ujjanīṃta caṃdrasena | śivārcana karī pradoṣīṃ ||4||
tyācā amūlya sanmaṇī | harāyā nṛpa tatkṣaṇīṃ |
ghevonī akṣauhiṇī | ujjanī veḍhite te ||5||
hastyaśca ratha pattī | pāhonī na bhī cittīṃ |
śivā pūjī to bhūpatī | teṃ dekhatī gopaputra ||6||
aśvattha saṃnidhānīṃ | aṃgaṇī te pāṣāṇīṃ |
pūjitī, tyāṃ netī jananī | pūjanīṃ rame eka bāl̤a ||7||
rāhe mel̤ā jātāṃ ekalā | pūjā loṭuni mātā tyālā |
oḍhī to mūrchita paḍalā | śiva tyālā de sāyujja
puḍheṃ naṃdastrī hoūna | mātā lāhe kṛṣṇanaṃdana |
jyotirliṃga teṃ dekhūna | dveṣa soḍūna jātī rāje ||9||
puḍheṃ suta vhāvā tarī | śanipradoṣa tūṃ karīṃ |
yeru mhaṇe tumhāsarī | janmāṃtarī putra vhāvā ||10||
jo bhāvikāṃ deī vara | tathā mhaṇūnī śirāvara |
mūrkhaputrācyā dharī kara | vidvadvara to jāhalā ||11||
tī karunī pradoṣapūjā | puḍheṃ jhālī viprātmajā |
svasamāṃna nāhīṃ dujā | mhaṇūnīṃ ho tastuta datta ||12||
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