Wasudev's father Waman Patankar was a school headmaster at Achalpur.(Maharashtra).

Patankar studied Vedas, philosophy and other shastras as a shishya under Sitaramshastri Kurumbhatte.

In later years he completed his graduation in arts and further in law and worked as a full-time advocate at Yavatmal District court from 1933 to 1959,because of his profession he used to deal with lot of villagers as clients and was tempted to jungle life, [citation needed] he took hunting lessons from his guru Baburao Naidu.

After getting into Urdu shayari he wanted to pen its independent Marathi version He started with Marathi shayari at the age of 52 and his writing style clearly depicts his young heartedness and happy go lucky nature.

With lucid and subtle use of words in his shayari large number of people relished it from beginning.