 During 1918–1924, he taught Pharsi at Fergusson College in Pune, and after serving as a high school teacher for the next four years, he joined Rajaram College in Kolhapur to teach Pharsi there for the next eleven years (until his untimely death at age 45 in 1939).In 1926, he published a Pharsi-Marathi dictionary.During his years at Rajaram College, Patwardhan wrote in Marathi a thesis titled "Chhandorachana" (छंदोरचना) and received for it a D.Litt.