How was the Shri Sai Satcharita compiled and published, and what makes it unique compared to other works about saints?

As explained in Chapter 0, the Shri Sai Satcharita stands out as a uniquely detailed and comprehensive Guru biography. It was written by the late devotee Shri Govind Raghunath, also known as Annasaheb Dabholkar, to capture the life of the modern saint, Sai Baba of Shirdi. This sweet and inspirational work was not published all at once; it was released chapter by chapter over a period of six years in the Shri Sai Leela magazine before being completed with a concluding chapter. The preface notes that apart from the Shri Sai Satcharita and the older Guru Charitra, no third work written in such detail is found in Maharashtra, making it especially suitable for devotional study and Parayans.