ABSTRACT
Hindu peregrination is a type of religiously motivated ‘circulation’. It thus focuses upon but one strand of human mobility, manifested primarily as transeconomic behaviour which tends to establish man’s connectivity with forces transcending his own power and authority. The minimal dimension of pilgrimage includes the human individual, a believed suprahuman entity or ‘force’, and the spatial act of attempting to bring about their relational proximity. The relational proximity thus achieved may be considered by some pilgrims as a point in time when desired suprahuman intercession by the ‘deity’ becomes meaningful for the mundane life. For some other pilgrims the act of traversing space may symbolize such material transcendence which is not a mere escape from the phenomenal world, but rather a desirable ‘higher’ state of existence in sacred space.
