Talk:Dattatreya

message: The article seems to make several references to this person? Neither Wikipedia nor Google seems to have any reference on him. Suggest that these references be removed?   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.220.121.73 (talk) 15:03, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is Rigopoulos?

message: The use being made of the Upanishad quote is completely bogus. The quote itself says only, "in the guise of a child, a madman, a devil". It does not say that Dattatreya is "the personification of evil". That is a Wikipedia editor's personal opinion. THAT is the part the needs a citation. Whose interpretation is it? Are they reputable? I see a quote that implies that Dattatreya seems like but is not (i.e. "in the guise of") a child, a mad-man or a devil. It doesn't say he is a devil and even if it did, the cultural meaning is not the same as the western "Devil". This is simply being used as an excuse to insert sectarian bullshit. -999 (Talk) 22:02, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The upanishad quote which has been a part of the ATHARVA VEDA is not a "BOGUS QUOTE", to call it sectarian is even more bogus.  It's like Christians denying the New Testament.
It's not the quote I object to. Don't you get it? It's the uncited interpretation of the quote. You can't add that without saying whose opinion or interpretation it is. Without that, the quote is meaningless in context. It is only being used to insert a BOGUS OPINION about what it might mean. -999 (Talk) 22:14, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

text: The translation might be questioned, but a Pisacha is a demonic spirit...The Datatreya Upanishad is found in the original sanskrit online.
--Shravak 22:07, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

text: It doesn't matter, as long as this critical information from a major text is included--Shravak 22:44, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you. Dattat 23:48, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Curious, who do you agree with, Dattat? My opinion is that the quote was taken out of context and used to make a point not intended by the text. 999 has very rightly expanded the quote by including context. It now cannot possibly be made to mean that Dattatreya is "the personification of evil" or a devil or anything of the sort. Are you guys ISKCON? —Hanuman Das 01:37, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So that's why I got called a sockpuppet? Because you don't agree? Wow! You guys throw your weight around here!  Dattat 17:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, because it was your very first edit and you made the very same change that another user had just been pushing into the article to the point of being blocked for it. Coincidence? I don't think so. -999 (Talk) 17:11, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm at a loss to understand your complaint, Dattat. I never called you a sockpuppet. Apparently, 999 has, and somehow because I agree with him about your edit (actually, it seems it was originally Green23's edit, then Shravak's edit) then it is my fault too? I don't follow your reasoning...unless you are Green23 and you are mad because I reverted his edits, because I haven't touched the article since you started editing it. —Hanuman Das 01:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upanishad quote 

message: Namaste to all, 
Articles about Lord Dattatreya is a good resource of information. It covers good details in spiritually scientific way. I have added it as external link. Please review and comment your views on this page. GlobalStudy (talk) 08:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Useful Resource of Articles 

message: I agree that the Mahendranath source may be an unreliable source for the article. It appears to be self-published as an internet page only and is not a book. If anyone can provide an ISBN # or book info, it would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I favor removing the sourced information to Mahendranath. WikiUserTalk 07:01, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mahendranath reference 

message: I do not doubt the sincerity or overall correctness of the writers who contributed the long sections on the various scholars and devotees in the second half of the article, but a lot of them do not seem to be very well known - to avoid notability problems, could you please provide sources? Harsimaja (talk) 18:43, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Various scholars and devotees mentioned 

message: Some content is reproduced in . Archive.org is down ATM, and I am not an expert in figuring who copied from who (us or them). Ping User:Moonriddengirl/User:Nikkimaria, I am sure you guys can at least post it at the right place for people to look into. At least some content was copied to Manik Prabhu. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:19, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: While I can't preclude copying from somewhere, I am happy to say that it does not seem content was copied from that page, but rather the other way around. :) We see here a classic sign of natural evolution. I can check for more if you like, but that kind of thing convinces me - it's unlikely, obviously, that somebody would have copied from them, but with minor differences, that somebody else later changed back. Thanks for looking into it, Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:15, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio? 

message: Can i add references from the magazines published legally with no copyright issues about Lord Dattatreya from Maharashtra and Karnataka states, One Ph.d degree holder professor has also published a small booklet, can i add them?
Ankush 89 (talk) 17:28, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference Improve

message: The copyvio tool found a staggering 99.4% copyright violation. Ogress smash! 08:24, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio 

message: This seems an absurd statement. Dattātreya first appears (not as a god at all, but as a sage) in Vaiṣṇav texts like the Dattātreya Yoga Śastra. He is part of an open, anti-tantric, haṭha yoga movement in vaiṣṇavism that rejected tantra's secular teaching and reliance on initiation. James Mallinson writes all about him and translates the Dattātreya Yoga Śastra. I can't find the reference, but I believe he said that the Nāthas actually have a strong dislike for Dattātreya as he undermines their attempts to lay claim to yoga since Svatmarama. No text to my knowledge connects him to the Nātha sampradaya. This statement has no source given and seems a random assertion. The Nāth's Adiguru is Śiva and first teacher is given either as Matsyendra or Gorakṣa and their deity orientation is to Devi and the Yoginis. The much later Kaula text the Haṭha [Yoga] Pradīpikā lists the lineage of Nāths as "Shiva, Matsyendra, Shabara, Anandabhairava, Chaurangi, Mina, Goraksha, Virupaksha, Bileshaya, Manthana, Bhairava, Siddhi, Buddha, Kanthadi, Korantaka, Surananda, Siddhapada, Charpati, Kaneri, Pujyapada, Nityanatha, Niranjana, Kapali, Bindunatha, Kakachandishvara, Allama Prabhudeva, Ghodacholi, Tintini, Bhanuki, Naradeva, Khanda, and Kapalika." No mention of Dattātreya. Can anyone defend or source this dubious connection? Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 03:23, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: "Dattātreya  has  only  ever  been  associated  with  the   Nāth   Sampradāya   in   the   Deccan   region,  and  the  formalization  of  that  association  dates  to  approximately  the  18th  century,  when  texts  such  as  the  Marathi  Navanāthabhaktisāra  sym-bolically  united  the  Nāth  Sampradāya  with  the  →  Mahānubhāv  sect  by  identifying  nine  Nāths  with  nine  Nārāyan" -Mallinson, James 'Nath Sampraday, p.4
Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 20:03, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nath Adiguru 

message: I added Nimi on the Tempature but, someone deleted it formerly. However, i re-added it now and please understand that Nimi is truly mentioned in the Mahabharata. See 91th of Santi Parva. Karasingam 2.0 (talk) 14:31, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dattatreya's son Nimi is truly mentioned in Mahabharata, why deleted that? 

message: The painting by Raja Ravi Varma  (1848–1906) used as an illustration of the article is dated "c.1910" on the file page itself
The date is indicated on the page source of Prof. Frances W. Pritchett, Columbia University, as "Ravi Varma studio, c.1910's*; or " Ravi Varma Press, c.1910's  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB1C:8103:8A00:6BEA:6EB7:B3D7:8CB3 (talk) 09:02, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation, the date of creation is 1890 - I've updated the doc and the wikimedia source too. Thanks! Smallangryplanet (talk) 10:45, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice, Thx ! 2A01:CB1C:8103:8A00:6BEA:6EB7:B3D7:8CB3 (talk) 10:46, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of painting 

message: There seems to be a user who insists on re-adding this section in the article despite the fact that it appears to be both unsourced and POV. I believe it should not be restored until reliable sources can be found for it.  Chronikhiles (talk)  04:31, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Incarnations of Dattatreya" section