Saturday, October 16, 2010

Saraswati Gangadhar

               Shri GuruCharitra was written by Shri Saraswati Gangadhar, the 15th-16th Century poet. His full name is Saraswati Gangadhar Saakhare Deshastha Brahmin and possibly stayed most of his life at Kadaganchi village, located now in Karnataka. Gurucharitra is written by him .The language is Marathi of the 14-15th Century, but without any Urdu or Persian words. Shri Saraswati Gangadhar made sure that there are no words taken from Urdu or Persian, but only from Sanskrit.