He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975 for his scholarly work Saundarya Mimansa (1974).
[2] Aesthetics and Literary criticism, his first book was published in 1969, followed by three books in Marathi, entitled Saundarya Mimansa (1974), Croceche Saundarya Shastra: Ek Abhyas (1974) and Kantche Saundaryamimansa (1977).
[1] Saundarya Mimansa, considered as the monumental works in Marathi literature, deals with the western aesthetics from Plato and Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Sartre, and with Indian tradition from the Sanskrit text to modern Marathi critics.
[3] He wrote Muktibodhanche Sahitya (1986), which evaluates Sharchchandra Muktibodh's contribution to literature.
[1] Prabhakar Padhye has written a book on Patankar's theories and principles of aesthetics, namely Patankaranchi Saundarya Mimansa (1977).