The temples dedicated to Dattatreya are located throughout India, the most important places of his worship are in Karnataka,Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat like Ganagapur in Karnataka near Gulbarga, Narasimha Wadi in the Kolhapur district, Pithapuram in Andhra Pradesh near Kakinada, Audumbar in Sangli district and Girnar in Saurashtra.
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Anasuya, an archetypal chaste and virtuous wife, did severe Tapas (austerities) to beget a son equal in merits as Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, the Hindu male trinity (Trimurti).
Jayanti | Datta | Vikram Jayanti | Jayanti | Ganesh Jayanti | Gandhi Jayanti | Dhirendranath Datta | Bishakha Datta | Anwesha Datta Gupta | Naomi Datta | Jyotirmoy Datta | Hanuman Jayanti | Durjoy Datta | Durjoy datta | Datta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Akshay Kumar Datta |
Other festivals the temple celebrates are Shiva worship in Hindu month of Shravana; Kojagiri Poornima - full moon day of Hindu month Ashvin; Diwali (festival of lights); Holi (festival of colours); Datta Jayanti (birthday of the deity Datta); Hanuman Jayanti (birthday of monkey god Hanuman) and Godhadebuwa Jayanti (birthday of the saint Godhadebuwa).