– Banajog yatra will begin from March 29 – Chandan yatra and Akshaya Tritiya will be held on April 21. – Debasnanna Purnima will be on June 2. – On June 15, the Daitapatis will conduct the brahma parivartan programme…
Maverick Puri – An awesome piece of blog Part 1
I find Puri unorthodox, very inventive and completely original. A place with a strong character and people with tremendous amount of self-confidence. At times quirky & cocky but Puri is always the “one and only”. Visitors from all across the globe come…
Informative Video on Jagannath Nabakalebara in Odia by Focus TV
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Odisha Govt showers welfare schemes for Jagannath temple servitors before Nabakalebara
A model public school would be set up in Puri town where children of the servitors would be provided free education to enable them to acquire the required knowledge to ‘compete with the best’. Besides the regular curriculum, the school…
Pic from History: Shri Jagannath Temple picture from 1890
Jagannath Nabakalebar: 24 hrs electricity & Increase hotel occupancy spaces by 30k
With an aim to provide uninterrupted power during the grand Nabakalebar festival of Lord Jagannath next year, the Odisha government has undertaken the ambitious project at a cost of Rs 305 crore. An outlay of Rs 114 crore has been…
The Legend Behind Mahaprasad and Nirmalya of Jagannath Temple Puri
Everybody knows that when the ‘Prasad’, cooked in the temple of Lord Jagannath is offered to Goddess Bimala it becomes ‘Mahaprasad’. What is the eagerness of devotees of Lord Jagannath to get this Mahaprasad waiting hours long to get it in the temple…
Puri Jagannath Nabakalebar 2015
It is an ancient ritual associated with Jagannath Temple, Puri, Odisha, India (60kms from the city of #Bhubaneswar)when the Idols of LordJagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Sudarshan are replaced by a new set of Idols. A year which has two months (Adhika masa) of Ashadha as per the Hindu…