Near Akkalkot there is a small village named Lohagaon. A resident of the village Bapurao Kulkarni had a hole in his throat. When he would eat or drink anything it would come out of the hole. He tried all remedial measures but there was no use. Finally he went to Ganagapur a holy place of Lord Dattatrey, Gulbarga District, in Karnataka State. He arranged for reciting the Gurucharitra¹²⁶ and listened to the same with rapt attention. One night, he had a vision in his dream ordering him to worship the earthen idol of Lord Ganesh. He started worshiping the Ganesh Idol as per his vision. One day while worshipping the idol a serpent started to crawl upwards on his body. Bapurao got terrified and hastily got up. In that confusion the earthen idol of Lord Ganesh fell down and the serpent fled the scene. From that day onwards Bapurao started feeling better.

Once again Bapurao got a vision in his dream ordering him to sing devotional songs in the praise of Lord Vishnu. He knew that he lacked both, the knowledge of poetry and the art of composition. However, because of the vision he tried to write ‘Abhang’ (A species of metre, poetic rhythm, bringing religious hymns in the praise of God or Sadguru). Nevertheless, he was not able to write the fourth part of each verse or stanza. He composed 300-400 verses but in every verse the fourth part could not be written. This greatly bothered him and he became anxious. Then one day he got another visionary insight stating that Lord Dattatrey has reincarnated Himself in Akkalkot and so he should proceed to Akkalkot and surrender himself to Sri Swami Samarth to complete his work.

Bapurao came to Akkalkot and stood praying before Sri Swami Samarth. Sri Swami touched Bapurao’s throat with his toe and placing his hand on Bapurao’s head blessed him. The hole in the throat healed completely. Further, with the blessings of Sri Swami he was able to complete all the verses. Later on, Sri Swami blessed him with knowledge and he became a popular saint called ‘Das-Bapu.