A study of the multi-faceted Hindu deity Dattatreya from his Puranic emergence as an immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatara, up to his celebration as the trimurti of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva in modern tim
The ascetic devotional sect known as the Mahanubhavs – ‘Those of the Great Experience’ – arose in thirteenth-century Maharashtra and initially experienced a fairly rapid expansion across the northern