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Dattātreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatāra: A Study of the Transformative and Inclusive Character of a Multi-faceted Hindu Deity

Dattātreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatāra: A Study of the Transformative and Inclusive Character of a Multi-faceted Hindu Deity

Rigopoulos, Antonio

Paperback

Series: SUNY Series in Religious Studies

Hinduism

ISBN10: 0791436969
ISBN13: 9780791436967
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 9 1998
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.85 Depth: 8.87
Language: English

Presents the multi-faceted Hindu deity Dattatreya from his Puranic emergence to modern times.

This book presents the multi-faceted Hindu deity Dattatreya from his Puranic emergence up to modern times. Dattatreya's Brahmanical portrayal, as well as his even more archaic characterization as a Tantric antinomian figure, combines both Vaisnava Saiva motifs. Over the course of time, Dattatreya has come to embody the roles of the immortal guru, yogin and avatara in a paradigmatic manner. From the sixteenth century Dattatreya's glorious characterization emerged as the incarnation of the trimurti of Brahma, Visnu, and Siva. Although Maharastra is the heartland of Dattatreya devotion, his presence is attested to throughout India and extends beyond the boundaries of Hinduism, being met with in Sufi circles and even in Buddhism and Jainism via Nathism.

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