Somewhere around in 1956-57, Sri Datta yaga was being performed at Manik Nagar, a renowned pith of His holiness Manikprabhu Maharaj, one of the incarnations of Lord Dattatray. The hundreds of devotees had gathered to witness this yaga. Amidst the crowd, the two idols of Lord Dattatray were kept for the darshan of the devotees.

A couple in a hopeless state of mind was witnessing the yaga, since they didn’t have any child and were praying with folded hands to bless them with the child. Sri Manik prabhu Maharaj could realize the depth of their unhappiness and called them for darshan. The couple came forward and prayed at the feet of Sri Manikprabhu Maharaj to bless them with the child. Sri Manikprabhu Maharaj picked up one of the two idols of Sri Dattatray and gave them as a prasad asking them to worship the idol thereafter. Unfortunately, inspite of praying, the couple couldn’t get the child and after the death of the couple the idol came to a family worshipping Lord Dattatray as their family deity. The couple subsequently got old and looking for a place to donate the idol where the proper pooja, rituals are performed since this idol was a blessed by Sri Manikprabhu Maharaj. On getting request from one of the devotes of Lord Dattatray to accept the idol and install the same in a temple where daily poojas and rituals are performed. We at, Sri Dwarkadhish Charities, instantly accept the request and decided to create a small hexagonal temple for Lord Dattatray. The temple being small and in line with the philosophy of Datta Sampradaya, we decided to name it as Sri Datta Kutir. In Sri Datta Kutir, a devotee can easily do parayans of Sri Gurucharitra amidst the peaceful and beautiful surrounding. At Sri Datta Kutir, Sri Datta Jayanti, Gurupaurnima and Gurudwadashi are celebrated with great enthusiasm.