Shri Gurucharitra's Contents
The book is written as a conversation between Siddha (who is a disciple of Shri Narasimha Saraswati) and Namdharak who is listening to Siddha. It appears that the Siddha mentioned here is not the person who met Saraswati Gangadhar, but it must be his Sanskrit script of GuruCharitra that must have been available to Saraswati Gangadhar. Namdharak (literal translation is Name Bearer or Name Carrier) can be symbolically seen to be Saraswati Gangadhar himself. The name Saraswati possibly comes from Shri Narasimha Saraswati and depicts the old tradition of naming oneself as a devotee to that particular god or guru. This is similar to changing your name after accepting a particular faith.).
The book is divided in to 3 parts: Dnyankand (Knowledge part), Karmakand (Work part) and Bhaktikand (Devotion Part). Chapter 1 is Managalacharanam (holy feet or holy stanzas), Chapter 2 to 4 are Datta-avatar Charitra (Life story of Dattatreya incarnations), Chapter 5 to 10 are Shripad Shrivallabha charitra (Life story of Shripad Shrivallabha), Chapter 11 to 52 are life story of Shri Narasimha Saraswati and Chapter 53 is Avataranika or the summary of the whole book. There is a unanimous agreement among the scholars that this last chapter has been attached later, and was not part of the original script.
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