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An 83-year-old Puri Jagannath Temple cook was found murdered near Gudiashahi. The body of Jagannath Dixit, a temple 'supakar' ...
The ritual was performed on the bathing altar known as the ‘Snana Mandap’ as the priests poured 108 pitchers of aromatic ...
Lakhs of devotees thronged to the sacred city of Puri in Odisha to witness the divine spectacle of 'Snana Purnima' or the ...
Puri Gajapati Maharaja Dibyasingha Deba performed 'Chhera Pahanra', and adorns Lord Jagannath, and his siblings, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra, with 'Gajanan Besha', on the occasion of Deva Snana ...
A recent managing committee meeting of the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in Puri has resolved to patent key words and symbols associated with the rituals and identity of the Shree ...
The SJTA, in a statement, said that it would computerise land records of the temple and protect them as per the Uniform Policy of the state government and the provisions of the Shri Janganath ...
The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) on Sunday suspended senior servitor Ramakrushna Dasmohapatra for 30 days and barred him from entering the 12th-century Puri temple after he ...
An official statement by SJTA chief administrator Arabinda Padhee said Dasmahapatra had been suspended from all temple duties and prohibited from performing rituals at the Puri Jagannath Temple ...
but write it by saying Jagannath temple, and you cannot write Dham... No wood has gone from here- Jagannath Puri Dham. Whatever conspiracy was planned by the Chief Minister of Bengal, religion has ...
Nabakalebara' is a ritual held every 12 or 19 years, during which the wooden bodies of idols - Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath - are changed at the Puri temple. 'Brahma' is a ...
As tensions rise over the West Bengal government’s portrayal of a newly constructed temple in Digha as 'Jagannath Dham', the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has launched an official probe ...
"I also urge the Odisha government and the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) to initiate talks over the matter. As per my understanding, Puri is the only place referred to as 'Jagannath ...