Poetic Work
As a poet, he is exceptional in his clarity of thoughts, selection of words and poetic sense. He has a tremendous command over his language. His mother tongue was Kannada and NOT Marathi. However, his Gurucharitra uses very exceptional Marathi. Even then the Grantha does not have difficult to understand Sanskrit scripts. This shows his command over the language. As a poet he is truly extraordinary and shows his talents in the construction of many stanzas ("ovya") which after reading will appear as if they are from general purpose (or colloquial) language used in one's daily life. The selection of words and their flow is truly marvelous and shows his deep understanding and command over the Marathi language.
The Gurucharitra written by him is considered as a "Ved" of Datta-Sampradaya which is quite wide spread in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra-Pradesh. This Grantha is sort of like Gita for Datta-Sampradaya people. Saraswati Gangadhar has written 51 Chapters, in which he describes the life and philosophy of Shri Shripad ShriVallabha and Shri Narasimha Saraswati. These are two avatars of Shri Dattatreya. In spite of descriptions of Vedanta and other heavy philosophical ideas, this Grantha is written excellently and this makes it a one of the unique Granthas of its kind in the world. It is quite possible (according to experts like Prof. R. C. Dhere) that he possibly had the Sanskrit version of the Gurucharitra written by Shri Narasimha Saraswati's disciple "Siddha" and he may have translated that in prakrit language i.e. Marathi.
(Pra-krit : Not Processed or Synthesized. Sans-krit : Processed or Synthesized).
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