Overview
- The Snan Purnima ceremonial bath with 108 pitchers triggered the start of a 15-day Anasara period during which the Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra idols are kept out of public view.
- The deities remain in the temple’s Anasara Ghar where Daitapatis perform prescribed rituals and offer herbal and Ayurvedic treatments such as Phuluri Tela to symbolically restore the gods.
- Regular public darshan is suspended during Anasara, so many devotees are visiting the Alarnath Temple at Brahmagiri as a customary alternative place of worship.
- Temple authorities are completing final chariot preparations ahead of the Rath Yatra, which is set to begin in mid-July with the deities taken to the Gundicha Temple for a seven-day stay.
- The sequence reflects a centuries-old ritual calendar tied to 12th-century tradition and affects pilgrim flows, local crowd planning, and religious observances in Puri in the run-up to the procession.