GURU DATTATREYA OF GANAGAPUR

He came back and pleased his parents with the fame he achieved. Again he proceeded to Southern parts, preaching and worshipping besides lifting the sokarthis from the miseries through miracles of different kinds. A few are sufficient for the purpose. When he went for Mudhukari at a certain house in Wadi, in the district of Kollapur, he was treated with cooked beans, the only food eaten by a Poor Brahmin which he got from a small creeper grown in the front yard, which was tended by him with great care. Listening to his woeful tale, Nrisimha Saraswati left the precints, but before that he cut off the root of the creeper. The family was shocked at his ingratitude. But when they dug the ground to plant another to their greater shock they found a pot packed with costly jewels worth several lakhs. Realizing the greatness of that Parivrajika, the householder became an ardent devote and started propagating the cult. 

Among the other; mention must be made of his making a low caste illiterate reciting the Vedas; barren begetting children, feeding three thousand hungry guests from a mere small vessel and making the dead alive when he inadvertently blessed a widow with the born of eight children.

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