Eknathi Bhagwat is a book written by Sant Eknath of the Marathi faith. This is major work of Varkari Sampradaya.

Eknath Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi pronunciation: knath (1533–1599), was an Indian Hindu Vaishnava saint, philosopher and poet. He was a devotee of the Hindu deity Vitthal and is a major figure of the Warkari movement. Eknath is often vie ...

had begun writing the Eknathi Bhagwat in Paithan finishing it in

Varanasi Varanasi (, also Benares, Banaras ) or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.* * * * The city has a syncretic tradition of I ...

. The text contains a total of 18,798 owee (poetic metre). Dnyaneshwari and eknathi bhagwat are texts based on the same principle and supplement mutually. Dnyanehwari contains The message given to Arjun by Shri Krishna whereas bhagwat contains the massage given to Uddhava. Bhagwat includes 31 chapters out of which the first 5 chapters were written in Paithan and the rest of 26 in Varanasi. Eknath took reference from

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...

Acharya Shridhar while writing on bhagwat. The text begins with worshiping lord ganesh.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20130712004547/http://santeknath.org/vagmayavishayi.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20130712004512/http://santeknath.org/eknathi%20bhagwat.html Warkari Indian non-fiction books {{Hindu-book-stub