Bhausaheb was born as Wasudev Waman Patankar on 29 December 1908.
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, he took hunting lessons from his guru Baburao Naidu.
He had a licensed Winchester Model 1895 (hunting cartridge .405 Winchester) rifle and had an official games license, which he used for hunting tigers, the speciality of his hunting was that never hunted the tiger sitting on a hunting platform or a tree stand as he believed in doing it face to face his observing nature can be seen from the observations he had on nature and its happenings, he wrote a series of such observations in Amrut magazine from 1952 to 1956.

He retired due to eyesight problems.
Bhausaheb was born as Wasudev Waman Patankar on 29 December 1908. 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, he took hunting lessons from his guru Baburao Naidu. He had a licensed Winchester Model 1895 (hunting cartridge .405 Winchester) rifle and had an official games license, which he used for hunting tigers, the speciality of his hunting was that never hunted the tiger sitting on a hunting platform or a tree stand as he believed in doing it face to face his observing nature can be seen from the observations he had on nature and its happenings, he wrote a series of such observations in Amrut magazine from 1952 to 1956.
He retired due to eyesight problems.
Wasudev Waman Patankar