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On the Road: A Maharashtrian Pilgrimage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

I. Karve
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People impatient to get out were pushing me from behind; people anxious to get in pulled me out. Somehow I landed on my feet on the dusty platform. I gathered the few packages and made my way out of the railway station through a crowd. The reasons for the crowds became clear: today was the day of the weekly market, and the “god” on his journey had reached this town to make a day's halt. My guide and I picked our way through heaps of millet and wheat and rice, through pots and pans, through bales of cloth and saris, toys and hand-mirrors, vegetables and sweets—everything displayed on both sides of the road. Farther on, there were amusements—the revolving cradles and merry-go-rounds, gramophones shrilling loudly, a snake-charmer, a troupe of tight-rope dancers.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , November 1962 , pp. 13 - 29
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962

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1 Viṭhobā (“Father Vishnu” in Marathi) is elsewhere in this account called by the regional names “Vithai,” “Vitthal,” and “Pandharinath” (“Lord of Pandharpur”), as well as by other universal names of Vishnu—“Hari,” “Narayan,” and “Krishna.”