Dattatreya Jayanti - Dattatreya Jayanti 2024 - Lord Dattatreya

Margashirsha Purnima is also celebrated as Dattatreya Jayanti. It is believed that Lord Dattatreya was born on this day. According to religious texts, Lord Dattatreya is known as an incarnation of all Lord Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. Dattatreya is believed to possess qualities of both the Lord and the Master and hence is also known as Gurudev Datta.

According to beliefs, Dattatreya was born on the day of Purnima in Margashirsha month during Pradosh Kal. According to Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Dattatreya acquired knowledge from 24 masters. Datta community originated because of him. Many different temples devoted to him can be seen in southern India. Worshipping Lord Dattatreya on the Purnima of Margashirsha month relieves a person from all problems and sins.

Dattatreya Appearance

Dattatreya Jayanti celebrated on the full moon day of Margashirsha every year all over the country.  It is believed that Lord Dattatreya was born with three different portions of the trinity gods. The child form of the lord is worshipped on this day. As per the legend, Goddess parvati, Saraswati and Lakshmi were proud of their loyalty towards their husbands. When Lord Narad gets to know about it, he boasts about the penance of Anusya towards her husband. All the three goddesses decide to challenge Anusaya Sati Dharma, and Lord Dattatreya was the result of this test.

Dattatreya Jayanti Katha

Lord Narad visited swarglok and boasted about the loyalty of Anusya for her husband in front of all the three goddesses. Ansuya’s Sati Dharm  awakened the sense of malice in Devi Parvati, Lakshmi ji, and Devi Saraswati and to take her test they sent their husbands Shivaji, Vishnuji and Brahma ji to Ansuya.But the gods of the ladies tried to explain ,when Devi’s did not understand  and the three gods forcibly reached the ashram of sage.The gods there went in disguise of sages and began to demand food at the entrance to the ashram.

When Devi Ansuya started offering food to them , they put a condition in front of her . That they all will only accept this offering if she’ll serve it without wearing clothes.On this Devi became tensed , that how could she do that . Atlast , Devi closed her eyes and imagined her husband on which she got an intuition that these sages are gods in disguise.

On that devi said that she would do as they want , but for that they have to take the form of her sons.  The three gods agreed to it , and were then served food by Mata Devi.This way all the three gods started living there as Devi’s sons. Anusaya maintained her loyalty. As a result, all the three gods started to live with her as her sons.

After a while when the gods did not reach back to parlok, Devi Parvati, Lakshmi ji, and Devi Saraswati became concerned and devastated .All the three goddess apologised Devi Sati and asked her to free them from her sons form and give them back their husbands. The trinity gods before leaving blessed her that portions of themselves would be born as her sons. Later on, she gave birth to Soma as an incarnation of Lord Brahma, Dattatreya as Vishnu’s incarnation and Durvasa as Shiva’s incarnation.