The Rashtrakutas and their Times c20.151

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of our period. Pandharpur was a centre of Viṣṇu worship in the 13th century as noted already, but whether it had then become a centre of Bhakti movement we do not know. It is not unlikely that Jñānadeva may have had several predecessors, now lost into oblivion, who may have popularised the gospel of Bhakti among the masses by vernacular poetry earlier than his time. But whether any advocates of that movement existed in the Deccan of our period is very doubtful.