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Primary deity

Sant Tukaram

Tradition

saint

Year founded

17th century

Founder

SANT TUKARAM MAHARAJ HIMSELF (c. 1608-1650 CE) — the culminating Warkari saint, born to BOLHOBA AMBILE and KANAKAI in Dehu village (Indrayani river-bank, 35 km northwest of Pune) c. 1608 into a MORE MAVAL-KUNBI (Shudra-caste farmer-merchant) family. Despite his Kunbi/Shudra caste-status and largely-self-taught background, Tukaram became one of India's supreme devotional-poets, composing approximately 4,500 ABHANGAS (Marathi devotional-poems) collectively known as the TUKARAM GATHA — one of the core-canonical texts of Warkari-Sampradaya and Marathi-literary-tradition. Tukaram's life at Dehu: severe early-life hardships including the 1629-1630 Deccan famine killing his first wife and child, loss of family wealth, and social-ostracism by orthodox Brahmins. Under profound spiritual-calling, Tukaram took Vitthal as his ishta-deva and dedicated his life to HARIPATH-ABHANGA-COMPOSITION. His MAHASAMADHI is traditionally described as SADEH VAIKUNTHA GAMAN ("ascending to Vaikuntha in his physical body") on PHALGUNA KRISHNA DWITIYA, 1650 CE (approximately March 19, 1650) — celebrated annually as TUKARAM BEEJ. The samadhi-shrine at Dehu was built around the Sadeh-Vaikuntha-departure site; subsequent Peshwa-era and modern expansion

Managing trust

Shri Sant Tukaram Maharaj Sansthan, Dehu — hereditary Warkari-lineage trust under traditional management of the Tukaram-family-descendants (known as the "More"/"Ambile" family line) with Maharashtra state endowment oversight

Daily footfall

12,000-25,000 daily

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Non-Hindu policy

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Dress code

Traditional attire preferred. Warkari-devotees traditionally wear WHITE (men) or WHITE-YELLOW (women) with TULSI-MALA (essential Warkari-identifier) and applied-gopichandan-tilaka (yellow-clay-paste forehead-mark). No shorts. Footwear removed at Mahadwara. No leather in sanctum. Photography outside sanctum only; inside sanctum permitted only during major festivals with Trust-permission.

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Typical visit

60–150 min

Sthala Purana — the story

The Dehu-Tukaram foundational narrative is PURELY LIVING-MEMORY HAGIOGRAPHY (17th-century saint-biography) — centered on Sant Tukaram Maharaj's life c. 1608-1650 and his PHALGUNA KRISHNA DWITIYA 1650 Sadeh Vaikuntha Gaman. Traditional sources: Tukaram's own TUKARAM GATHA (approximately 4,500 abhangas — rich-autobiographical content reveals his spiritual-emotional journey); MAHIPATI's BHAKTILEELAMRITA (c. 1762 Marathi hagiographical compilation including detailed Tukaram-biographical-accounts); SANT BAHINA BAI's Atmanivedana (a 17th-century-contemporary-Warkari-woman-saint who personally encountered Tukaram); SHIVAJI MAHARAJ-era bakhars (Maratha-court-chronicles); subsequent Warkari-hagiographical-compilations. Core narrative: Tukaram was born c. 1608 at Dehu village on Indrayani river-bank to BOLHOBA AMBILE and KANAKAI, a More Maval-Kunbi (Shudra-caste farmer-merchant) family with modest-middle-class prosperity. Early-adulthood (early-1620s): marriage to RAKHUMABAI; father and elder-brother Savaji died; Tukaram assumed family-head responsibilities including farming/grain-trading/money-lending business. Second marriage to AVALI (JIJAU). The transformative-moment: 1629-1630 DECCAN FAMINE — one of medieval Maharashtra's most-severe famines caused by successive monsoon-failures — killed Tukaram's first-wife Rakhumabai AND their young son through starvation; the family's trading business collapsed; substantial family-debt accumulated. In the extreme-trauma of these losses, Tukaram underwent PROFOUND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, increasingly-abandoning conventional-family-responsibilities to engage in continuous-devotional-practice at BHAMBNATH HILL (near Dehu), river-banks, and forests. His first-composed ABHANGAS emerged — raw, emotionally-direct Marathi-devotional-poetry addressed to VITTHAL/PANDURANG of Pandharpur. His second wife Jijau heroically-maintained the household during Tukaram's increasing-spiritual-absorption; her perseverance is celebrated in Warkari-tradition. Through the 1630s-1640s, Tukaram composed approximately 4,500 abhangas — the TUKARAM GATHA. Popularity among Kunbi, Mahar, and non-Brahmin communities of Maharashtra grew; simultaneously, ORTHODOX-BRAHMIN OPPOSITION intensified. The most-celebrated opposition-episode: RAMESHWAR BHAT, senior-Brahmin of Wai (Satara district), condemned Tukaram's abhangas as unfit-for-Shudra-composition and ordered the manuscripts SUBMERGED IN THE INDRAYANI RIVER. Tukaram accepted the humiliation; manuscripts submerged for 13 DAYS. PER WARKARI TRADITION, ON THE 13TH DAY THE MANUSCRIPTS FLOATED BACK UNHARMED — a divine intervention establishing Vitthal's direct-affirmation of Tukaram's authority. Rameshwar Bhat himself became Tukaram's disciple (per traditional-narrative). Multiple additional traditional-episodes are preserved: (1) SHIVAJI MAHARAJ's personal-devotion to Tukaram and their meetings; (2) Tukaram's interactions with SANT RAMDAS (Samarth Ramdas, 1608-1682, another 17th-century saint) — though the two had philosophical-differences (Tukaram more-devotional-Vaishnava, Ramdas more-kshatriya-Shakta-oriented); (3) Tukaram's interactions with SANT BAHINA BAI (1628-1700), a contemporary-Warkari-woman-saint who considered Tukaram her guru; (4) Tukaram's interactions with Sant Gopalkrishna-Babaji and others. THE SUPREME EVENT of Tukaram's life: PHALGUNA KRISHNA DWITIYA 1650 CE (approximately March 19, 1650) SADEH VAIKUNTHA GAMAN. Per traditional Warkari-canonical narrative: Tukaram was seated at his usual devotional-spot on the Indrayani river-bank; reciting Vitthal's names in profound-devotional-absorption; a PUSHPAK VIMANA (celestial-aircraft) descended from Vaikuntha; Vitthal himself appeared; Tukaram ENTERED THE VIMANA with his physical body and ascended to Vaikuntha. There was NO BURIAL because there was no physical-body-left on earth. The spot at Dehu is memorialized as a SYMBOLIC SAMADHI-PLATFORM (distinguishing from Dnyaneshwar's Sanjivan-Samadhi burial-chamber at Alandi). Per some alternative-historical accounts (primarily non-Warkari-sources and certain academic-historians), Tukaram may have been murdered by orthodox-Brahmin-opponents around the same 1650 date — with the Sadeh-Vaikuntha-Gaman narrative emerging as a protective-hagiographical-account; however, the traditional-Warkari-canonical interpretation remains the physical-body-ascent. Whatever the historical-reality, the PHALGUNA KRISHNA DWITIYA 1650 date is celebrated as TUKARAM BEEJ ("Tukaram Seed Day") — one of Maharashtra's most-important spiritual-observance-days.

References: Tukaram Gatha (Sant Tukaram's own ~4,500 abhangas, c. 1630-1650) ~4,500 Marathi abhangas · Mahipati's Bhaktileelamrita (c. 1762) 18th-century Marathi saint-biographical compilation · Sant Bahina Bai's Atmanivedana 17th-century contemporary-Warkari-woman-saint autobiographical composition · Shivaji Maharaj-era Maratha-court bakhars 17th-century Maratha-court chronicles

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Architecture & art

The Sant Tukaram Maharaj Samadhi Mandir at Dehu (approximately 60m × 50m compound on the Indrayani river-bank) is architecturally a LAYERED PESHWA-ERA 18TH-CENTURY MAIN-STRUCTURE with modern-20th-21st-century expansions — similar-in-scale and architectural-idiom to its Alandi-Dnyaneshwar-companion though with DISTINCTIVE SYMBOLIC-SAMADHI-DESIGN reflecting the Sadeh-Vaikuntha-Gaman rather than burial-chamber. Primary structures: (1) MAIN SAMADHI-SANCTUM — the central shrine where the SADEH-VAIKUNTHA-GAMAN departure-site is memorialized; there is NO ACTUAL BURIAL-CHAMBER; the site is marked with a SYMBOLIC SAMADHI-PLATFORM above which stands a 152-cm marble Tukaram-Maharaj MURTI in seated-yogic-farmer-saint-posture; silver-plated sanctum doors; oil-lamps, peacock-feather-fans, and daily-fresh-shringar; (2) GOLDEN PADUKAS display — symbolic-sandals traditionally used for the Ashadhi-Wari-palkhi-procession; (3) NANDURKI TREE SACRED GROVE — the specific-tree-site where Tukaram composed many of his abhangas during his devotional-absorption; tree is preserved and venerated; (4) ANANDA-OVARI — a specific small sanctum marking a place where Tukaram had profound devotional-experiences; (5) PALKHI MANDAP — the specific hall where the annual ASHADHI WARI PALKHI-PROCESSION originates; Tukaram's golden padukas rest here between Wari-cycles and are formally-processed to the palanquin on Wari-departure day; (6) TUKARAM-GATHA-MANUSCRIPT-DISPLAY-HALL — added in the 2021 Modi-government-Tukaram-Shila-Mandir-project; houses trust-preserved original-and-early-transcribed manuscripts of Tukaram's handwritten abhangas (as preserved by family-descendants) plus early-print-editions; (7) DNYANESHWAR PALKHI-REST-SHRINE — specific rest-point where the Alandi-Dnyaneshwar palkhi visits during pre-Wari coordination; (8) INDRAYANI-GHAT — stone-step-descent to the river; devotee-snana before sanctum-darshan is traditional; (9) SUBSIDIARY SHRINES — Vitthal-Rukmini (paired-Pandharpur-deity replica), Hanuman, Ganesha; (10) BHAKTA-NIWAS (pilgrim-accommodations) on the periphery. Materials: BLACK DECCAN BASALT (Peshwa-era primary); LIMESTONE-MORTAR (18th-century expansions); MODERN RCC (20th-21st-century peripheral); copper-alloy kalasha; silver-plated sanctum doors; Makrana marble Tukaram murti; teak wood mandapa pillars; traditional brass oil-lamps; Indrayani-ghat stone-paved steps. The 15m shikhara is modest-Peshwa-vernacular. The complex's architectural-character — like Alandi's — is UNDERSTATED AND FUNCTIONAL, reflecting the Warkari-emphasis on simple-devotional-living rather than ornate-display. Surrounding Dehu village: small Marathi-vernacular streets, flower-vendors (tulsi, marigold), prasad-shops, Bhakta-Niwas, and the Indrayani-river-ghats extending 500m upstream and downstream from the main-temple-ghat.

Style

Peshwa-era 18th-century + modern-20th-century Maratha-vernacular samadhi-complex. Main complex approximately 60m × 50m on the INDRAYANI RIVER bank at Dehu (35 km northwest of Pune, on the Pune-Mumbai highway-corridor). Layout: (1) INDRAYANI-GHAT stone-step-descent; (2) outer prakara with subsidiary shrines; (3) main SAMADHI-SANCTUM with the 152-cm marble Tukaram murti above the Sadeh-Vaikuntha-Gaman-site; (4) PALKHI MANDAP — the specific hall where the Ashadhi Wari palkhi-procession originates each year; (5) TUKARAM-GATHA-MANUSCRIPT-DISPLAY-HALL with trust-preserved original Tukaram-family manuscripts; (6) NANDURKI TREE sacred-grove where Tukaram composed; (7) ANANDA-OVARI specific devotional-experience-site

Shikhara height

15 m

Built of

Black Deccan basalt (Peshwa-era primary construction); limestone-mortar expansions; modern RCC for outer peripheral structures; copper-alloy kalasha; silver-plated sanctum doors; Makrana marble Tukaram murti; teak wood mandapa pillars; traditional brass oil-lamps; Indrayani river-bank stone-paved ghats with approach-stairs

Notable features

SADEH VAIKUNTHA GAMAN site — Tukaram's "physical-body-ascent-to-Vaikuntha" (1650) · Samadhi-symbolic-platform (not burial like Dnyaneshwar's at Alandi) · TUKARAM GATHA ~4,500 abhanga canon · FOUNDATIONAL WARKARI-SAMPRADAYA SHRINE (paired with Alandi) · ASHADHI WARI PALKHI-PROCESSION origin point (paired with Alandi; 6-10 lakh warkaris) · RAMESHWAR-BHAT episode: Tukaram's abhanga-manuscripts submerged in Indrayani by orthodox Brahmins, floated back after 13 days · SHIVAJI MAHARAJ's devotion to Tukaram · INDRAYANI RIVER-GHAT devotional-bath · TUKARAM-JIJAU family-story · NANDURKI TREE sacred-composition-grove · Peshwa-era 18th-c. main-structure · 12,000-25,000 daily footfall · 3-5 lakh Tukaram Beej · 6-10 lakh Ashadhi Wari departure · "Dnyanoba-Tukoba" paired invocation · Pair with Alandi (35 km east; Sant Dnyaneshwar Samadhi) and Pandharpur (250 km southeast; Warkari destination); Alandi-Dehu-Pandharpur = WARKARI TRIANGLE

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History timeline

1. c. 1608 CE (Tukaram's birth)

   Sant Tukaram Maharaj is born circa 1608 CE (exact-year varies 1608-1609 across sources) in DEHU village on the INDRAYANI river-bank (35 km northwest of Pune) to BOLHOBA AMBILE and KANAKAI — a More Maval-Kunbi (Shudra-caste farmer-merchant) family. The Ambile-More family had modest-middle-class prosperity through farming, grain-trading, and local-money-lending. Tukaram is the second of three brothers: SAVAJI (elder) and KANHOBA (younger). Early-life was relatively-comfortable with traditional Kunbi-caste upbringing; elementary-literacy through village-school; introduction to Warkari-devotional-tradition through family-practice (the family was already connected to Dnyaneshwar-Namdev-Eknath Warkari-lineage).

2. 1620s (early-adulthood and family responsibilities)

   In his early 20s (early 1620s), Tukaram married RAKHUMABAI as his first wife (traditional Kunbi-caste arranged-marriage). Shortly after, both his father Bolhoba and elder-brother Savaji died; Tukaram assumed family-head responsibilities including continuing the family farming/trading business. Around 1624-1625, his second marriage to AVALI (also known as JIJAU) — a young woman who would become one of Marathi-spiritual-tradition's most-celebrated wife-of-saint figures. Initial business-success; family prosperity under Tukaram's management.

3. 1629-1630 (the great Deccan famine and family tragedy)

   Critical life-turning-point: the DECCAN FAMINE of 1629-1630 (one of the most-severe famines in medieval Maharashtra, caused by successive monsoon-failures) DEVASTATED TUKARAM'S FAMILY. Specific losses: (1) his FIRST WIFE RAKHUMABAI and their young son died of starvation and malnutrition; (2) his second wife Avali/Jijau survived but with profound hardship; (3) the family-farming-trading business collapsed; (4) significant family-debt. Tukaram, in the extreme-trauma of these losses, underwent a PROFOUND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING. He increasingly-abandoned conventional-family-responsibilities to engage in continuous-spiritual-practice at nearby hill-tops (particularly BHAMBNATH HILL near Dehu), rivers, and forests. He began composing his first ABHANGAS — raw, emotionally-direct, devotional poems addressed to VITTHAL of Pandharpur. His second wife Jijau assumed the heroic-role of maintaining the household during Tukaram's spiritual-absorption; her perseverance and support are venerated in Warkari-tradition.

4. 1630s-1640s (Tukaram Gatha composition and Warkari-emergence)

   Throughout the 1630s and 1640s, Tukaram composed approximately 4,500 ABHANGAS — the TUKARAM GATHA — in vernacular Marathi that was accessible to ordinary people regardless of caste, education, or social-status. His poems expressed: (1) RAW DEVOTIONAL EMOTION directed to Vitthal/Pandurang; (2) SOCIAL CRITIQUE of Brahmin-orthodox-hypocrisy, caste-prejudice, and material-wealth-obsession; (3) EMOTIONAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL-DEVOTIONAL JOURNEY (his own agony, struggles, joys, doubts, and triumphs openly-expressed); (4) PHILOSOPHICAL-INSIGHTS into bhakti-tattva accessible to common-readers. His abhangas became increasingly-popular among the Kunbi, Mahar, and other non-Brahmin communities of Maharashtra; simultaneously, they triggered ORTHODOX-BRAHMIN OPPOSITION. The most-famous episode: RAMESHWAR BHAT, a senior-Brahmin of Wai (Satara district), condemned Tukaram's abhangas as unfit for a Shudra-caste-person to compose, and ordered that the abhanga-manuscripts be SUBMERGED IN THE INDRAYANI RIVER. Tukaram accepted this humiliation; the manuscripts were submerged for 13 days. Per Warkari-tradition, on the 13TH DAY, THE MANUSCRIPTS FLOATED BACK UNHARMED — a divine intervention establishing Vitthal's direct-approval of Tukaram's composition, and humiliating Rameshwar Bhat. Rameshwar Bhat himself subsequently became Tukaram's disciple (per tradition); this episode is one of the most-celebrated vindication-narratives in Indian bhakti-literature. Tukaram developed a close-devotional friendship with Sant Gopalkrishna-Babaji, Sant Ramdas, Sant Bahina Bai (another 17th-c. Warkari saint), and others. SHIVAJI MAHARAJ (the founder of Maratha Swaraj) became a personal devotee of Tukaram; their meetings are traditionally documented.

5. Phalguna Krishna Dwitiya, 1650 CE (Sadeh Vaikuntha Gaman)

   On PHALGUNA KRISHNA DWITIYA (the 2nd tithi of the dark-half of Phalguna month, approximately 19 MARCH 1650 CE, Tukaram Beej), Sant Tukaram Maharaj attained what Warkari-tradition describes as SADEH VAIKUNTHA GAMAN ("ASCENT TO VAIKUNTHA IN THE PHYSICAL BODY"). Per traditional narrative: Tukaram was seated at his usual devotional-spot on the Indrayani river-bank at Dehu; he was in a state of profound-devotional-absorption reciting Vitthal's names; a PUSHPAK VIMANA (celestial-aircraft) descended from Vaikuntha; Vitthal himself appeared; Tukaram physically-entered the vimana and ascended to Vaikuntha WITHOUT LEAVING HIS PHYSICAL BODY on earth. This mahasamadhi-mode is considered the ULTIMATE BHAKTI-ATTAINMENT — surpassing even conventional mahasamadhi-at-death. The specific spot at Dehu where this departure occurred has NO PHYSICAL BURIAL (distinguishing from Dnyaneshwar's Sanjivan-Samadhi burial-chamber at Alandi) but is memorialized with the marble murti above the symbolic-departure-site. Per some historical-alternate-accounts (primarily non-Warkari-sources and certain academic-historians), Tukaram may have been murdered by orthodox-Brahmin-opponents (specifically implicated: Rameshwar Bhat's associates or similar factions) at this date — with the Sadeh-Vaikuntha-Gaman narrative emerging as a protective hagiographical account; however, the traditional Warkari-canonical interpretation remains that the physical-body-ascent occurred as per the ancestral narrative. Whatever the historical-reality, the Phalguna Krishna Dwitiya 1650 date is celebrated annually as TUKARAM BEEJ ("Tukaram Seed Day") — one of Maharashtra's most-important spiritual-observance-days.

6. 1650-1760 (early-post-Tukaram era and Warkari-consolidation)

   Post-1650: Tukaram's family (his brother Kanhoba and sons including Mahadev and Vithoba) continued the Dehu-Tukaram-lineage. The original samadhi-departure-site became a pilgrimage-shrine; initial modest temple-structure around the site. TUKARAM GATHA compilation: Tukaram's abhangas — initially scattered across family-records, devotee-memories, and early-manuscripts — were systematically-compiled over the 17th-early-18th centuries. The standard TUKARAM GATHA (approximately 4,500 abhangas) reached its canonical form by the late 17th century. The "DNYANOBA-TUKOBA" paired-invocation tradition crystallized: Dnyaneshwar (Alandi) and Tukaram (Dehu) together formed the foundational dual-anchor of the Warkari-Sampradaya; devotees visit BOTH SHRINES as the supreme Warkari-pilgrimage-pair. The ANNUAL WARI-PADA-YATRA tradition expanded: Alandi-Dehu combined palkhi-procession to Pandharpur.

7. 1760-1818 (Peshwa-era main-temple construction)

   18th-century Peshwa-era (Madhavrao I, Sawai Madhavrao, Nanasaheb Peshwa) patronage: the Peshwas were themselves Warkari-devotees; Nanasaheb Peshwa (Balaji Bajirao II) undertook personal Wari-pilgrimages. Substantial temple-construction funding: the main Dehu Samadhi Mandir structure was substantially-built during this Peshwa-era — central sanctum, 15m shikhara, mandapa, subsidiary shrines, Palkhi Mandap, Indrayani-ghat improvements. The ASHADHI-WARI PALKHI-PROCESSION reached its modern-institutional form: specific route (Dehu → Tulapur → Pimpri-Chinchwad → Pune → Saswad → Jejuri → Walhe → Lonand → Taradgaon → Phaltan → Natepute → Vakhri → Pandharpur), specific rest-chaukis, pan-caste community-hospitality protocols, 6-10 lakh warkari-pada-yatri-volumes. The 2-palkhi coordination: the DEHU-TUKARAM PALKHI and ALANDI-DNYANESHWAR PALKHI depart approximately same-time (late-June, 18-21 days before Ashadhi Ekadashi) and MEET at PIMPRI-CHINCHWAD approximately day-2 of the yatra, proceeding together-thereafter to Pandharpur.

8. Post-1818 / modern era

   Post-1818 British-colonial period: Dehu and the Wari-tradition continued unchanged. Post-1947 independent-India: the Shri Sant Tukaram Maharaj Sansthan, Dehu formalized hereditary-Warkari-trust-management with Maharashtra state endowment oversight. Modern infrastructure expansion: Trust-managed Bhakta-Niwas; online booking via alandidevachi.com-affiliated portals; expanded Indrayani-ghats; improved pilgrim-amenities; 21st-century road-widening of Pune-Dehu-Alandi-highway has improved Pune-base-pilgrim-accessibility (35 km from Pune). The TUKARAM BEEJ observance has grown: 3-5 lakh annual attendance on Phalguna Krishna Dwitiya. The ASHADHI-WARI from Dehu has expanded: 6-10 lakh warkari-palkhi-departure. 2021: MODI-GOVERNMENT-Tukaram-Maharaj-Shila-Mandir Project at Dehu inaugurated — enhancing infrastructure and adding specific TUKARAM-GATHA-manuscript-display-hall. 2022-2024: continued expansion and Ashadhi-Wari-scale-growth. The modern Dehu is a thriving pilgrim-destination with 12,000-25,000 daily footfall, integrated into the broader Pune-area Warkari-circuit and pan-Maharashtra Warkari-yatra-tradition.

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Scriptural references

Tukaram Gatha (Sant Tukaram's own ~4,500 abhangas, c. 1630-1650)

~4,500 Marathi abhangas

Primary scriptural foundation — the supreme core-canonical text of Warkari-Sampradaya and one of Marathi-literary-tradition's foundational works; richly-autobiographical content reveals Tukaram's spiritual-emotional journey; daily-recitation-text at Dehu and pan-Warkari-community

Mahipati's Bhaktileelamrita (c. 1762)

18th-century Marathi saint-biographical compilation

Major Marathi saint-biographical compilation — detailed Tukaram-biographical-accounts drawing from earlier Warkari-traditions and Tukaram-family-records

Sant Bahina Bai's Atmanivedana

17th-century contemporary-Warkari-woman-saint autobiographical composition

Contemporary-17th-century eyewitness-account — Bahina Bai (1628-1700) personally-encountered Tukaram, considered him her guru, and includes biographical-details in her own autobiographical Atmanivedana

Shivaji Maharaj-era Maratha-court bakhars

17th-century Maratha-court chronicles

Primary historical source — documented Shivaji Maharaj's personal-devotion to Tukaram, their traditional meetings, and the Peshwa-era Tukaram-patronage-tradition

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