Rathjatra, Festival of charoits ; enthusiasm seen in Barak Valley
Ratha Jatra, the Festival of Chariots of Lord Jagannatha is celebrated every year at Puri, the temple town in Orissa, on the east coast of India. The presiding deities of the main temple, Sri Mandira, Lord Jagannatha, Lord Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra, with the celestial wheel Sudarshana are taken out from the temple precincts in an elaborate ritual procession to their respective chariots. The huge, colourfully decorated chariots, are drawn by hundreds and thousands of devotees on the bada danda, the grand avenue to the Gundicha temple, some two miles away to the North. After a stay for seven days, the deities return to their abode in Srimandira.
Ratha Jatra is perhaps the grandest festival on earth. Everything is on a scale befitting the great Lord. Full of spectacle, drama and colour, the festival is a typical Indian fair of huge proportions. It is also the living embodiment of the synthesis of the tribal, the folk, and the autochthonous with the classical, the elaborately formal and the sophisticated elements of the socio-cultural-religious ethos of the Indian civilization.
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SILCHAR : At ISKCON
Temple, Ambicapatty, Silchar, Laya Madduri, Deputy Commissioner, Cachar
conducted the ritual of sweeping the road through which the chariot would pass.
Apart from ISKCON, rathas were also taken out by: Syham sundar Akhra, Gopal Ji Akhra, Radhamadhab Akhra, Narshing Akhra, Goudiya Math and many other temples, individuals and community groups which were seen pulling by peoples.
Apart from ISKCON, rathas were also taken out by: Syham sundar Akhra, Gopal Ji Akhra, Radhamadhab Akhra, Narshing Akhra, Goudiya Math and many other temples, individuals and community groups which were seen pulling by peoples.
Jagannath
Rath Yatra was also taken out by devotees in Karimganj. MLA Kamalakhya Dey also
joined the devotees in pulling the ratha along with other devotees.
