Mahur

Mahur or Mahurgad is a town and religious place in Nanded locale of Maharashtra, India. Mahur is the origination of Hindu God Dattatreya. Atri Rishi and Sati Anusaya Mata lived here. Brahmadev, Vishnudev and Lord Shiva once got a news about Anusaya Mata that there is nobody more devout and unadulterated as her. To test her devotion they touched base under the attire of asking Alm bhiksha. When she brought it, they requested to serve them while being bare, she understood by her capacity that she is under a test. She made them a three headed kid and encouraged them.

This progressed toward becoming Dattatreya, the bound together God. There are three mountains in Mahur. The first and most known is having Renuka Mata Temple, who is mother of the god Parshuram. Other two are called Datt Shikhar and Atri Anasuya Shikar Temple's. Mahur has a holy sanctuary to Renuka Mata, which is viewed as one of the three and half Shakti Peethas sanctuaries in the state. A major reasonable is held here consistently on the event of Vijayadashami.