MAHUR (BIRTH PLACE OF HINDU GOD DATTATREYA)

About this place

Mahur or Mahurgad is a town of religious importance in Nanded district and is the birthplace of Hindu God Dattatreya & Atri Rishi and Sati Anasuya lived here. Bramha Vishnu Shiva once got a news about Anasuya that there is no one more pious & pure as her so to test her piousness they arrived under there of asking bhiksha when she brought it, they asked to serve them while being naked, she realised by her power that she is under test so she made them a three headed child & fed them and thus became Dattatreya, the unified God. There are three mountains in Mahur, the first one & most known is of Renuka Devi, who is mother of the god Parshuram, other two are called Datt Shikhar and Atri Anasuya Shikar.