Dehu

Town in the Pune district of Maharashtra
state, sixty-five miles east and south of
Bombay. It is most famous as the
home of the poet-saint Tukaram, one
of most important figures in the
Varkari Panth. The Varkaris are a religious community centered around the
worship of the Hindu god Vithoba, at
his temple at Pandharpur in modern
Maharashtra. Varkari religious practice
centers primarily around two annual
pilgrimages in which all the participants arrive in Pandharpur on the
same day. Tukaram still symbolically
travels to Pandharpur twice each year;
a palanquin (palkhi) bearing his sandals is at the head of the procession
bearing his name.