Later he began to compose works himself in a simple devotional style, and were not only extremely popular, but were revered and worshipped like sacred texts.
[3] Shridhara was born to a Kulkarni belonging to Deshastha Yajurvedi Brahmin (DYB) family in 1658 CE in Nazare a village in Solapur district, Maharashtra state.
[4] Shridhara was also called as Nazarekar because his father was a Kulkarni at Nazare in Sholapur district, but they hail from Khadki.
He first composed Harivijaya in 1702, an abridged version of Shrikrishna charita, based on Bhagavata and Padma Purana.
Moropant alone among them had condensed all the three epics, Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Bhagavata, but his compositions in Āryā metre addressed pandits well versed in Sanskrit, but could not reach the masses.