Tag: Rath Yatra 2018

Puri: With just a few hours left for the world famous Rath Yatra festivities to kick off, the pilgrim town is already brimming with lakhs of devotees reaching here for the ‘Nabajaubana darshan’ – first glimpse of the deities after their 15 day healing ritual at ‘Anasaragruha’ of  the Puri Srimandir. Fresh from their recuperation […]

Bhubaneswar/Puri: In view of the Supreme Court’s recent directions barring direct collection of donations from devotees in Puri Srimandir, the Shri Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) today informed that donation boxes (Hundis) will be installed on the chariots during Rath Yatra. In a meeting of the Daitapati Nijog and the chief administrator of SJTA, Pradipta Mohapatra […]

Puri: As the annual Rath Yatra inches closer, servitors of Puri Srimandir are doing everything to help the Holy Trinity recuperate from the fever they are suffering from in their secret Anasara chamber. A special ritual to mark recovery of the deities called ’Chaka Bije’ was held today at the 12th century shrine. According to […]

Puri: In an unfortunate incident, a 75-year-old devotee from Kendrapara died near Kalpabata inside Puri Srimandir today afternoon. The devotee, identified as Ajay Kumar Das from Kendrapara district, was resting near the Kalpabata (considered as the wish fulfilling tree) when he suddenly fell unconscious. Soon after he was discovered dead. The reason behind the death […]

Puri: While construction of chariots for the annual Rath Yatra is underway in full swing, the members of the chariot construction engineering committee, during inspection today, found defects in the wheels of Devadalan & Taladhawaja chariots of Devi Subhadra and Lord Balabhadra, respectively. After inspection, the Executive Engineer of the committee informed that while cracks […]

Puri: Ahead of the annual Rath Yatra of the Trinity, construction of chariots began with ‘Ratha Anukula’ here on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya on Wednesday. The three 12-ft sacred logs of ‘Dhaura Katha’ were brought to the ‘Ratha Khala’ near the Jagannath temple. The process commenced with the axe being given the divine touch […]

Lord Jagannath might be the ideal deity for millions of his devotees around the globe, but his one wife is not too impressed. Just within a fortnight of their wedding, he bathes too much and falls ill for 15 days. Immediately after, he goes out on a vacation with his siblings, not bothering to even […]