Deity Figure South Asian traditions
Dattatreya
दत्तात्रेयः sa दत्तात्रेय hi தத்தாத்ரேயர் ta
Hindu deity and combined avatar of the Trimurti (Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva)
- Child of Anasuya and Atri
- Dated c. 4th century BCE – c. 3rd century BCE
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Family
The family of Dattatreya
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 5
Kinship in an account 4
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Family 1
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Connections
How Dattatreya connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Documented influence 24
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- was influenced by beekeeper person who keeps honey bees
- was influenced by Bombus genus of insects
- was influenced by caterpillar larva of a butterfly or moth
- was influenced by child human between birth and puberty
- was influenced by Columbidae family of birds (Aves)
- was influenced by courtesan prostitute or mistress
- was influenced by deer animal, often with antlers
- was influenced by Earth third planet from the Sun in the Solar System
- was influenced by elephant large terrestrial mammals from Africa and Asia
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- was influenced by fire rapid oxidation of a material; phenomenon that emits light and heat
- was influenced by fish vertebrate animal that lives in water and (typically) has gills
- was influenced by fletcher a maker of arrows
- was influenced by Heterocera group of mostly-nocturnal insects in the order Lepidoptera
- was influenced by Moon Earth's only natural satellite
- was influenced by ocean very large body of saline water
- was influenced by Osprey species of bird
- was influenced by Python genus of reptiles
- was influenced by sky region of the atmosphere and outer space visible from the surface of the Earth
- was influenced by snake limbless, scaly, elongate reptile
- was influenced by Spider order of arachnids
- was influenced by Sun star at the centre of the Solar System
- was influenced by teenage girl adolescent female human
- was influenced by water chemical compound whose molecules are formed by two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom
- was influenced by wind flow of gases or air on a large scale
Recorded events and days 1
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
31 statements on this record
- 24 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 7 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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