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Updated: May 7, 2025

For Nâmdev see also Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion, vol. VI. pp. 17-76. An earlier poet of this country was Jñâneśvara who wrote a paraphrase of the Bhagavad-gîtâ in 1290. At Pandharpur pilgrims visit first a temple of Śiva and then the principal shrine. This latter, like the temple of Jagannath at Puri, is suspected of having been a Buddhist shrine.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2