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Cutting of wood logs for Rath Yatra begins in Cuttack
The New Indian Express Jeypore
|April 07, 2025
AMIDST devotional fervour, the first three logs of wood to be used in construction of the chariots for Rath Yatra in Puri (car festival) were sliced at the Government Saw Mill in Khapuria here on the occasion of Ram Navami on Sunday.
As per tradition, three logs of Dhaura tree were sliced after receiving the 'Agyanmala' from Shree Jagannath temple in Puri. The sliced logs will be used to build the three chariots - Nandighosa of Lord Jagannath, Taladhwaja of Lord Balabhadra and Darpadalan of Goddess Subhadra for the upcoming Rath Yatra festival.
This story is from the April 07, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Jeypore.
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