Thursday, October 15, 2009

Puri Jagannath Temple

The Puri Jagannath temple which is located in orissa is One of the famous temple which mainly belongs to the hindu people. The lord Krishna god is prayed over there. The name Jagannath came by the combnation of two Sanskrit words namely Jagat(Universe) and Nath(Lord of).

Once in a year lakhs of people arrives there to get the darshana of the lord Krishna & also to get blessings from the god. Most of the people who attend the festival are from rural side. There are mainly three temple here which are having very huge gopura with three chariots which are pulled out by the devotees during the festival time. The priest Ramananda who is the head of the temple who looks after all the things to make the festival very grandful every year & temple mainly
belongs the vaishnava fsmily.

Other than the festival daily & weekly pooja’s will be carried out with no disturbance. In the olden days the temple people allowed only Buddhist & Jain group people, but later on they started allowing the Hindu people slowly. But still the temple has now also 90% are hindu caste people only.

One of the most popular thing in this temple is that temple’s kitchen is biggest one compared to all other temple’s in India. So, here daily they will cook the prasadam in earthen pots & By bringing water from the rivers Ganga & Jamuna which are Very near to the swami temple. So, I like to inform everyone
to visit the lord Krishna located at puri jagananth in orissa & the blessings from the god atleast once in your life-time.

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