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Bhubaneswar :<\/strong>\u00a0Like every year, the much-awaited\u00a0Rath\u00a0Yatra\u00a0was celebrated at Shrivani Kshetra of KISS, today amidst much religious fervour and gaiety.<\/p>\n In the forenoon religious ceremonies like \u201cMangala Arati, Mailama, Tadapalagi, Rosha Homa, Abakasha, Surya Puja\u2019\u2019 and establishment of Chariots were held according to the prescribed time and the ceremonial \u201cChhera Pahanra\u2019\u2019 was conducted by Achyuta Samanta at 4: 00pm.<\/p>\n At around 4.30 pm thousands of devotees participated in pulling the three decorated chariots of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra, and Devi Subhadra up to the newly-built Gundicha Temple near the KIIT-Sikharchandi Road.<\/p>\n The atmosphere along the \u201cRatha\u00a0Danda\u2019\u2019 near KISS was filled with devotees with traditional musical instruments, religious recitals and the sound of \u201cJay Jagannath\u2019\u2019. The exclusivity of the\u00a0Ratha\u00a0Yatra\u00a0at Shrivani Kshetra is that the chariot of Devi Subhadra is tugged by women devotees only. More than 50,000 devotees joined the festival today as the weather conditions were good.<\/p>\n It can be mentioned here that all rituals at Shrivani Kshetra are done as per the traditions of Jagannath Temple Puri. The traditions of\u00a0Ratha\u00a0Yatra\u00a0are also followed as laid by the Puri Shri Mandira. For the construction of the three beautiful chariots special \u201cbindhani\u2019\u2019, \u201cmaharana\u2019\u2019 and \u201cchitrakara\u2019\u2019 are engaged by the Shrivani Kshetra Temple Trust.<\/p>\n Starting from the construction of the Jagannath Temple at Srhibani Kshetra to all the rituals, \u201cniti\u2019\u2019 and \u201cpuja\u2019\u2019, all activities are done with the consultation and guidance by the Gajapati Maharaja of Puri, Shri Dibyasingh Deb. As per the\u00a0Ratha\u00a0Yatra\u00a0traditions of Puri, the three chariots of Lord Balabhadra, Jagannath and Devi Subhadra have 16, 14 and 12 wheels, respectively.<\/p>\n During this nine-day festival, there will be \u201cBhajan Samaroh\u2019\u2019 every evening near Gundicha Temple.\u00a0 Devotees from nearby localities throng the Gundicha temple and have a \u2018darshan\u2019 of the Trinity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Bhubaneswar :\u00a0Like every year, the much-awaited\u00a0Rath\u00a0Yatra\u00a0was celebrated at Shrivani Kshetra of KISS, today amidst much religious fervour and gaiety. In the forenoon religious ceremonies like \u201cMangala Arati, Mailama, Tadapalagi, Rosha Homa, Abakasha, Surya Puja\u2019\u2019 and establishment of Chariots were held according to the prescribed time and the ceremonial \u201cChhera Pahanra\u2019\u2019 was conducted by Achyuta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-07-at-7.46.21-PM.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33620,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33618\/revisions\/33620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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