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Shegaon
The samadhi town of Gajanan Maharaj (1878-1910) at Shegaon in Buldhana district, Maharashtra — one of Vidarbha's largest pilgrim destinations and the chief centre of modern Deccan sant worship outside the Varkari tradition. Gajanan Maharaj was a mystic of uncertain origin who appeared at Shegaon in 1878 and took samadhi (voluntary entombment) in 1910. The Shri Gajanan Maharaj Sansthan trust runs the temple, which draws about 50,000 pilgrims daily (over 10 million annually) and manages hospitals, colleges and the Anandasagar lake. The Ramnavami fair in April and the Punyatithi (September) are the two annual mega-pilgrimages. The sansthan's model has been widely emulated by other modern samadhi centres.
- Function
- Burial and funerary
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 20.790, 76.690
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- Samadhi atGajānan Mahārāj
Gajānan Mahārāj took samādhi at Shegaon in 1910, and the shrine built over it now draws several million a year to a small Buldhana town. Nothing is known of his origins; the Gajānan Vijay begins with his arrival in 1878 already grown, which leaves the biography starting in the middle.
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Sources
Hindu pilgrimage sites in India — Wikipedia
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