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ITKHED
Itkhed (Jalgaon T., p. 196).—It is a small village in Jalgaon tahsil situated 12 miles to the south-east of Jalgaon, the tahsil headquarters.
' The village owes its importance to the existence of a temple of Dattatreya which is visited every Thursday by numbers of people in search of relief from various ailments. Those afflicted with evil spirits are supposed to derive special benefit from a visit to the shrine. They burn camphor, burst into paroxysms of dancing and crying before the God, and then plunge three times into a deep pool of water, whence they emerge cleansed and freed from their afflictions. Three dharmashalas have been built for the accommodation of visitors. A religious fair is held here in the light fortnight of Chaitra (April), and the value of camphor then consumed is estimated at Rs. 500 '. [ Buldhana District Gazetteer, 1910, p. 421.]
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