śrī datta nakṣatramālikā stotram

Twenty-seven verses, one for each lunar mansion, in which Vāsudevānanda Sarasvatī compresses the whole Datta tradition into a garland. It opens with the birth — north of the Godāvarī on the Siṃha hill at Māhur, to Atri and Anasūyā, at twilight on a Wednesday in Mārgaśīrṣa — and gives the six hands their objects: rosary, water-pot, drum, trident, conch and discus. Then the itinerary that this tradition assigns to his day, sleep at Māhur and bathing in the Gaṅgā and the midday meal in Pāñcāla. Then the pupils, each with what he was given: the two yogic powers to Kārtavīrya Arjuna, self-knowledge to Yadu, logic to Alarka, mantras to Viṣṇudatta. The later verses follow the two later appearances — Śrīpāda at Pīṭhāpura, and the one born at Karañjā who recited Oṁ at birth, studied at Kāśī, and stayed twelve years at Narasiṃhavāḍī before Gāṇagāpura.