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Justice Mantha asserted that imposing restrictions on the chariot parade will invalidate, defeat, and jeopardise the Rath Yatra's mission and purpose.

The Jagannath Mandir Trust invited the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for this year's Jagannath Rath Yatra in Ahmedabad. Narendra Modi sent the Prasad as per his tradition.

On the day of the Rathayatra, the Gajapati ruler of Kalinga becomes a sweeper for one day when the emperor sweeps the chariot of Mahaprabhu with a golden handled broom as his servant.

The centuries-old practice began to witness a decline with the abolition of kingship and the Odisha government taking over the administration of the shrine from the Puri royal family in 1955 through an Act, thus making Parasmani the last surviving servitor.

Every Thursday in the current month of Margashira, every Odia household gets ready to welcome Maa Laxmi into their homes.

Bahuda Yatra is the festival where Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, and Devi Subhadra are brought back to their temple in their respective Rathas.

At the Shree Jagannath Temple of Puri, Odisha, every year after the Devasnana Purnima, the three deities of the temple - Lord Jagannath, Devi Subhadra, and Lord Balabhadra, go into a 'quarantine' for a period of fourteen days to recover completely from their 'illness'.