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Why Is Jagannath Rath Yatra (Puri) Celebrated?

Today we are going to talk about why Rath Yatra is celebrated. This Rath Yatra is a Hindu festival which is associated with Lord Jagannath, which takes place in the Puri of Odisha state of India. This is the oldest Rath Yatra in India and the world, which can be found in Brahma Purana, Padma Purana, and Skanda Purana and Kapila Samhita. So let us get some information about this festival.

This annual festival is celebrated on Ashadha Shukla dwitiya. The festival celebrates Jagannath's annual visit to Gundicha by Mausi Maa Temple near Balagandi Chaka of Puri. As part of this Ratha Yatra, the goddess of Jagannath's, her elder brother Balabhadra and younger sister Subhadra is taken to a brawl in Gundicha Temple. And stay there for nine days. They are also with Sudarshana chakra. Then the gods or the Ratha Yatra return to the main temple. Puri Jagannath Ratha Jatra return journey is known as Bahuda Jatra. Rath Yatra festival has become a common sight in most of the nation's journeys through the ISKCON Hare Krishna movement since 1968.

The three chariots of Balabhadra, Subhadra and Jagannath are made in the new year, which includes certain trees such as phassi, dhausa etc. They are usually brought to the teams of the state kingdom of Dasapalla, who have inherited rights and privileges. Is there. For the same logs are traditionally arranged as rafts in Mahanadi. These are collected near Puri and then transported through the maze. The construction of this chariot, the third day of Vaisakha's bright fortnight, starts on Akshaya Trutiya, in which religious fire is worshiped. This is against the main office of Puri's palace and the Puri temple.

On this day, new agricultural season starts and farmers start sowing their farms. On this day, the festival of summer festivals is also known as the moon festival or Chandan Yatra, which lasts for three weeks. In this festival, representatives of republican gods are taken in colorful process. In an interesting exhibition of the self-contained character of the Jagannatha sect, Madan Mohan and Rama Krishna, representing Jagannath and Balaram, participate in the festival with the representatives of the five main Shiva Temples of Puri.

On the occasion of the Rath Yatra, millions of pilgrims surrounded the coastal town of Puri, which was the symbol of the largest religious congregation in Odisha, to see the glimpse of the gods again raised after 19 years Ratha-yatra is the Sanskrit words, the charioteer meaning the chariot or the carriage, and the meaning of yatra travels. In other Indian languages such as Odia, phonetic equivalents are used, such as Ratha and Jatra, other names are called Rath Jatra or Rath.

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