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	''[[Shri Gurucharitra]]'' indicates that Gangadhar belonged to the [[Deshastha Brahmin]] family of ~~Apastambha sutra and that his [[~~gotra~~]] was Kaudinya~~. It is not known how many children he had but he frequently mentioned his "poorvaj", called Sayamdev. who was one of the four close disciples of Narasimha Saraswati. Gangadhar also mentions the four generations of his family that preceded him.		''[[Shri Gurucharitra]]'' indicates that Gangadhar belonged to the [[Deshastha Brahmin]] family of Kaudinya gotra. It is not known how many children he had but he frequently mentioned his "poorvaj", called Sayamdev. who was one of the four close disciples of Narasimha Saraswati. Gangadhar also mentions the four generations of his family that preceded him.

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'''Saraswati Gangadhar''' (16th century) wrote ''[[Shri GuruCharitra]]'', a book on the life of [[Narasimha Saraswati]] who is considered to be the second [[avatar]] of [[Dattatreya]]. Nothing much is known about Gangadhar's life other than through the ''Shri GuruCharitra''.

Guru-Charitra means "Guru's Life Story" or "Guru's Biography".

==Family background==
''[[Shri Gurucharitra]]'' indicates that Gangadhar belonged to the [[Deshastha Brahmin]] family of Apastambha sutra and that his [[gotra]] was Kaudinya. It is not known how many children he had but he frequently mentioned his "poorvaj", called Sayamdev. who was one of the four close disciples of Narasimha Saraswati. Gangadhar also mentions the four generations of his family that preceded him.

==Poetic work==
Gangadhar was a gifted poet. Although his mother tongue was [[Kannada]], the ''Shri Gurucharitra'' displays his mastery over the [[Marathi language]]. It is considered{{by whom|date=June 2016}} a "Ved" of Datta-Sampradaya, which is quite widespread in [[Maharashtra]], [[Karnataka]], [[Telangana]] and [[Andhra Pradesh]]. This Grantha is somewhat like Gita for Datta-Sampradaya adherents. Gangadhar wrote 52 chapters in which he describes the life and philosophy of [[Shripad ShriVallabha]] and Narasimha Saraswati. These are two avatars of Dattatreya. In spite of descriptions of Vedanta and other heady philosophical ideas, the Grantha is written with clarity. It is quite possible (according to experts such as [[R. C. Dhere]]) that he had the [[Sanskrit]] version of the ''Gurucharitra'' written by Narasimha Saraswati's disciple, Siddha, and he may have translated that into [[Prakrit]] language, i.e. Marathi.

==Life story==
Little is known about Gangadhar's life and death. But it appears that he was born after Narasimha Saraswati, possibly living between 1378 - 1458. It is also not possible that he may have had contact with one of the disciples, such as Siddha.{{clarify |date=June 2016 |reason= Is there an error in this sentence? Surely there's a clearer way to say whatever's intended here.}} However, he may have had access to a Sanskrit ''Gurucharitr'' written by Siddha, although there is no extant copy of this original Sanskrit work. Later, in the 19th-20th century, [[Vasudevanand Saraswati]], alias [[Tembe Swami]], (1854-1914) wrote a Sanskrit version of ''Shri GuruCharitra''.

He lived in the village of [[Kadaganchi]], now located in Karnataka.

==References==
*''Shri Gurucharitra'' by Saraswati Gangadhar (Edited by [[Gurucharitra|Ramchandra Krishna Kamat]])
*''Datta Sampradayacha Itihaas'' (History of Datta Sampradya) by R. C. Dhere
*''Dattatreya Dnyaankosh'' by Dr. P. N. Joshi

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