Śrī Gurucaritra

The Marathi ovi text recounting the lives of Śrīpāda Śrīvallabha and Narasiṃha Sarasvatī, the first two guru-avatars of the Datta Sampradaya.

Sarasvatī Gaṅgādhara7,439 Ovis, 51 invocations and 101 closing attributions

Reading plan

The traditional seven-day reading, converging across four independent Marathi devotional sources for this 53-chapter edition.

Go to adhyāya

Adhyāya 1The Auspicious Invocation

Adhyāya 2The Tale of the Disciple Dīpaka

Adhyāya 3Ambarīṣa's Vow

Adhyāya 4The Account of Anasūyā

Adhyāya 5The Telling of Dattātreya's Incarnation

Adhyāya 6The Glory of Gokarṇa

Adhyāya 7The Glory of Gokarṇa, Continued

Adhyāya 8The Glory of the Pradoṣa Vow

Adhyāya 9The Boon to the Washerman

Adhyāya 10The Removal of the Devotee's Peril

Adhyāya 11The Childhood Līlā of Śrī Guru Narahari

Adhyāya 12Śrī Guru Takes the Fourth Āśrama, and the Guru Lineage

Adhyāya 13To the City of Kāraṇja, and a Brāhmaṇa's Stomach Pain Removed

Adhyāya 14The Cruel Yavana Chastised, and the Boon to Sāyandeva

Adhyāya 15The Pilgrimages to the Holy Places

Adhyāya 16The Glory of Service to the Guru

Adhyāya 17The Glory of Bhillavaḍī, and the Boon to the Dull-witted Brāhmaṇa

Adhyāya 18The Glory of Amarāpura, and a Brāhmaṇa's Poverty Removed

Adhyāya 19The Glory of the Auḍumbara Tree, the Yoginīs' Daily Visit, and the Granting of Boons

Adhyāya 20The Haunting Lifted, and a Bereaved Mother's Grief

Adhyāya 21The Reviving of the Child

Adhyāya 22The Milking of the Barren Buffalo

Adhyāya 23The Liberation of the Rākṣasa

Adhyāya 24Trivikrama Bhāratī's Vision of the Universal Form

Adhyāya 25The Brāhmaṇas' Self-Praise

Adhyāya 26The Extent of the Vedas

Adhyāya 27The Curse on the Brāhmaṇas Drunk with Pride

Adhyāya 28The Ripening of Karma

Adhyāya 29The Glory of Holy Ash

Adhyāya 30The Grief of the Widowed Woman

Adhyāya 31The Account of the Devoted Wife

Adhyāya 32The Reviving of the Dead

Adhyāya 33The Glory of the Rudrākṣa

Adhyāya 34The Glory of the Rudrādhyāya

Adhyāya 35The Account of Sīmantinī

Adhyāya 36The Daily Rites

Adhyāya 37The Acts of the Daily Rites

Adhyāya 38Four Thousand Brāhmaṇas Fed from Food That Did Not Fail

Adhyāya 39An Old Barren Woman Granted Offspring

Adhyāya 40The Reviving of the Dry Wood

Adhyāya 41The Great Pilgrimage to Kāśī

Adhyāya 42The Glory of the Field of Kāśī

Adhyāya 43The Story of Śrī Ananta

Adhyāya 44The Glory of Śivarātri at Śrīśaila

Adhyāya 45A Brāhmaṇa's Leprosy Removed

Adhyāya 46The Poet Narahari Receives the Boon

Adhyāya 47The Assumption of Many Forms

Adhyāya 48The Boon to the Śūdra

Adhyāya 49The Glory of the Amarajā Confluence and of Gāṇagāpura

Adhyāya 50The King's Boil Healed, His Splendour Seen, and the Entry into Vaidurī

Adhyāya 51Śrī Guru Goes into Samādhi

Adhyāya 52The Attainment of Grace

Adhyāya 53The Avataraṇikā: the Essence of the Fifty-Two Chapters