Place · Shakti Pitha hill temple · India
Renuka, Nanded
Also known as Mahur, Nanded, Renuka, Renuka (Mahur), Renuka Devi, Renuka Devi — Mahur
The Renuka Devi temple at Mahur in Nanded district, Maharashtra, 165 kilometres from Nagpur — one of the Saade-Teen (three-and-a-half) Shakti Pithas of Maharashtra (with Tuljapur Bhavani, Kolhapur Mahalakshmi and Vani Saptashrungi). The hilltop temple is dedicated to Renuka (the mother of Parashurama, Vishnu's sixth avatar) who was decapitated by Parashurama at his father Jamadagni's command and later resurrected. The Mahur Renuka is counted among the 18 Maha Shakti Pithas as the site where Sati's right thigh fell. The temple is paired with the Dattatreya shrine 5 kilometres away. The temple's foundation is traditional 12-century; the current structure is 17-century Nizam Shahi and Maratha composite. The annual Chaitra Navratri festival in March-April draws over 300,000 pilgrims. Managed by Maharashtra State Religious Endowments.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 19.820, 77.470
Connections (1)
- Site withinHazūr Sāhib, Nanded
Renuka, Nanded sits inside Hazūr Sāhib, Nanded and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
Sources
Wikipedia, “Renuka”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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