Starting on Akshaya Tritiya every year, the 42-day festival concludes with bhaunri, a ritual, where the wheel and axle of the rath yatra chariots are fitted. The chandan yatra is a popular festival among the devotees and more so this…
Walls in Bhubaneswar get a Nabakalebar too to show the mega festival of Jagannath
Bhubaneswar walls get a nabakalebar literally with this new wall painting to showcase the mega festival of Lord Jagannath in Puri. Picture courtesy: Surajit Kumar Mishra Also Read: Jagannath Nabakalebar – Banajaga Yatra : All you should know about it
Nabakalebar: Nepal and its special relationship with Jagannath Temple festival
Nepal has an age old relationship with Shree Jagannath. The King of Nepal traditionally provided the ‘Kasturi’ (musk collected from Stag’s navel) used in rituals during the Nabakalebara. The have done it till the Nabakalebara of 1996, but have discontinued…
Nabakalebar 2015 : Balabhadra Daru Images from the site near Sarala Temple
A neem tree whose wood is to be used for carving an idol of Lord Balabhadra was identified near Goddess Sarala shrine in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district. The Banajaga team has identified the daru (log/wood) to make an idol of Lord…
Nabakalebar Daru of Lord Balabhadra near Sarala temple – an aerial view
Hundreds of devotees have been thronging Kanakpur in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district ever since the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) chief administrator Suresh Chandra Mohapatra made the formal announcement on Fridaythat the neem tree in front of the famous Sarala…
Nabakalebar 2015: Sacred wood for Lord Balabhadra’s idol found near Sarala Temple
A neem tree whose wood is to be used for carving an idol of Lord Balabhadra was identified near Goddess Sarala shrine in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district. The Banajaga team has identified the daru (log/wood) to make an idol of Lord…
Jagannath Nabakalebar: Odisha Tourism launches Video Ad with Sudarshan Pattnaik
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Jagannath Nabakalebar : Awesome aerial view of place of Sudarshan Daru Gadakuntunia
Devotees thronged Gadakuntunia village under Balakati block on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar since late Saturday night after the identification of the Nabakalebar Daru (log) of Lord Sudarshan in the village was announced by the Puri Shree Jagannath Temple…
Jagannath Nabakalebar : Legend Behind Lord Sudarshan shape as a pole
There is a legend behind this why Lord Sudarshan is still a pole and not shape of deitee. The story is narrated in the Mahabharata, which states that once in Dwaraka, Rukmini and Satyabhama wished to hear the Gopalila of…
Air Odisha thinks it can do some business during Nabakalebara
State based Air Odisha will start its intra-state operation from May first week ahead of Nabakalebara. Air Odisha will undertake three rounds of flying from Bhubaneswar. In the morning, it would go to Sambalpur en route to Jharsuguda. It would return…