Sri Jagannath Rathayatra Festival

Annual Pilgrimage of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, 24 June 2009

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Several devotees had a bird's eye view of events from the Puri library's roof.

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A particularly hot festival this year. Cooling spray from fire engines... 

...reached up to the roof too, as Chaitanya Mayi Devi Dasi found out.

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The King of Orissa arrives on a palanquin to sweep the road in front of Lord Jagannath. Mid-morning, Jagannathdev heads to His chariot.

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By lunch-time the procession is under way.

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Our Eastern and Western devotees chanting and dancing in front of the chariots. 

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 Lord Jagannath...  

...arriving at the Gundicha Temple...
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...with Lord Baladev... ...and Lady Subhadra.

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 Receiving mercy from Their Lordships.

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 Gundicha Temple as rain clouds gather towards evening.

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 Reaching Kolkata, devotees take a ferry up the Ganges towards our Dum Dum Park.

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