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or village accountant and for some years Girdhar followed him in the profession and was educated in the requisite fields. At the age of twenty he moved to Baroda where he worked for his sister's husband's banking firm. In Baroda he was exposed to learned ascetics and holy men, and studied Sanskrit
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sect named Ragīlāl Mahārāj. Girdhar's wife and son both died early in life. Girdhar traveled to several Vaishnav religious sites with Ragīlāl. On the return journey, when Girdhar wished to visit
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by Gosvāmī Puruṣottamadās. Girdhar worked as a manager in the local Vallabhite temple. He was also a friend of an ācārya of the
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and several other Puranic texts. His version is lucid and musical as it is in simple language and uses traditional
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language and its epic texts. Some years later he was initiated into the
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in a Lāḍ Vaṇik family in 1785. His father, Garavaḍadās, worked as a
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Sāṭhe, Gajānana Narasiṁha; Bhaṭṭa, Dīneśa Harilāla (1978).
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Girdhar or Giridharadāsa was born in the village of Māsar,
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Ragīlāl refused. Girdhar was anxious to get Śrīnāthajī's
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Gujarat
Gujarati
Gujarat
Ramayana
Tulsidas
metres
Vaishnavism
Krishna
Bhagavata
Baroda State
patwari
Vallabhite sect
Rādhāvallabhī
Śrīnāthajī
darśana
List of Gujarati-language writers


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