After attending Jubilee High School in the town of Chandrapur, he received college degrees, including a doctorate, in English literature from Nagpur University.
Purohit taught English literature for 40 years in different colleges in Nagpur, Amravati, and Mumbai, and served for some years as the principal of Ismail Yusuf College in Mumbai before retiring.
[2] In 1989, he presided over Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, which was held in Amravati.
He died at his residence in the Sahitya Sahawas Society in Vandre on 17 October 2018.
He coordinated Marathi Vishwakosh (मराठी विश्वकोश) and coedited with Sudha Joshi Wisawe Shatak (विसावे शतक), a collection of worthy short stories in Marathi written by different authors of the twentieth century.