sentences:  Hence, for women to gain knowledge of the book, he wrote The Saptashati Gurucharitra Saar, a short version of the Gurucharitra.He took sanyas 13 days after his wife's death in 1891, at the banks of the River Godavari, when a Sanyasi appeared from across the river and administered the vows of sanyas.Later, he was given the 'dand' (monastic sceptre) by Narayanand Saraswati at Ujjaini.