 Other well known literary scholars of the 17th century were Mukteshwar and Shridhar.Mukteshwar was the grandson of Eknath and is the most distinguished poet in the "Ovi" meter.He is most known for translating the Mahabharata and the Ramayana in Marathi but only a part of the Mahabharata translation is available and the entire Ramayana translation is lost.