Rath Yatra is celebrated every year in the month of June-July at Puri, the temple town in Orissa, on the east coast of India. It is dedicated to Lord Jagannath (Lord Krishna), his sister Goddess Subhadra and his elder brother Lord Balabhadra. It is also called Gundicha Yatra or the Chariot Festival, Dasavatara and Navadina Yatra. People from various age groups and communities participate in the first day rituals of the nine-day annual festival, also known as Car or Chariot Festival come and take out chariots of the presiding deities of the main temple, Srimandira: Lord Jagannatha, Lord Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra from the temple precincts in an elaborate ritual procession to the Gundicha Temple, their aunt’s place for a span of nine days, with the celestial wheel Sudarshana in a colorful procession. The huge, colorfully decorated chariots, are drawn by hundreds and thousands of devotees on the bada danda, the grand avenue to the Gundicha temple. After a stay for nine days, the deities return to their abode in Srimandira. This year, the annual Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath, his siblings Balabhadra and Subhadra began on Thursday, 4th July with great aplomb and splendid procession.
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