page_title: Saty Narayan Ji Mandir, Nabha
section_title: Rath Yatra at Saty Narayan Mandir, Nabha
hierarchical_section_title: Saty Narayan Ji Mandir, Nabha / Festivals / Rath Yatra at Saty Narayan Mandir, Nabha
caption_attribution_description: English: Bhajan Mandali At Nabha Ratha Yatra. Singing Jai Jagannath and Hare Krishna Hari Bol Hari Bol
context_page_description: The Saty Narayan Ji Temple in Nabha is a famous, sacred Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu and located on the North of India, at Nabha in the state of Punjab.
  The temple is an important pilgrimage destination for many Hindu traditions, particularly worshippers of Krishna and Vishnu, and ‘‘Char Dham pilgrimages that a Hindu is expected to make in one's lifetime.
  Even though most Hindu deities that are worshiped are made out of stone or metal. Deity of This Temple is made of Stone.
  The temple was built in the 18th century. This temple is 217 years old on date 27 May 2015. The temple is famous for celebrating Janamashtmi festival. On the occasion of Janamashtmi, the temple is decorated. Jhoolaah is made for Bal Gopal and is celebrated at night 12 AM.
  The temple is famous for its annual Ratha Yatra, or chariot festival, in which the three main temple deities are hauled on huge and elaborately decorated temple cars. Since medieval times, it is also associated with intense religious fervor. The First Ratha Yatra was held on 25 August 2014.
  The temple is sacred to the Vaishnava traditions and saint Ramananda who was closely associated with the temple.
context_section_description: The Jagannath triad are usually worshiped in the sanctum of the temple at Puri, but Shri Saty Narayan Ji Mandir Commi tee once during the year (usually falling in month of August or September), they are brought Jagannath out onto the Devi Chowk (main street of Nabha) and travel to the Shri Saty Narayan Ji, Temple in huge chariot (ratha), allowing the public to have darśana (Holy view). This festival is known as Ratha Yatra, meaning the journey (yatra) of the chariot (ratha). The Ratha is huge wheeled wooden structure, which is built anew every year and are pulled by the devotees. The chariot for Jagannath is approximately 20 feet high and 15 feet square and takes about 1 week to construct. The Committee Members, artists and painters of Nabha, Dhuri decorate the car and paint flower petals and other designs on the wheels, the wood-carved charioteer and horses, and the inverted lotuses on the wall behind the throne. The huge chariot of Jagannath pulled during Rath Yatra is the etymological origin of the English word Juggernaut. The Ratha-Yatra is also termed as the Shri Gundicha yatra.
  The most significant ritual associated with the Ratha-Yatra is the chhera pahara. During the festival, people wears the outfit of a sweeper and sweeps all around the deities and chariot in the Chera Pahara (sweeping with water) ritual. King cleanses the road before the chariots with a gold-handled broom and sprinkles sandalwood water and powder with utmost devotion.  As per the custom, although the King has been considered the most exalted person in the kingdom, he still renders the menial service to Jagannath. This ritual signified that under the lordship of Jagannath, there is no distinction between the powerful sovereign King and the most humble devotee.
  Jagannath Katha is held on Seven days before, on the first day of the Ratha Yatra, the last day of the festival, when the deities are ceremoniously brought back to the Shri Mandir.
  In the Ratha Yatra, the three deities are taken from the Jagannath Temple in the chariot.
  The observance of the Rath Yatra dates back to the period of the Puranas. Vivid descriptions of this festival are found in Brahma Purana, Padma Purana, and Skanda Purana. Kapila Samhita also refers to Rath Yatra. In Moghul period also, King Ramsingh of Jaipur, Rajasthan has been described as organizing the Rath Yatra in the 18th Century. In Orissa, Kings of Mayurbhanj and Parlakhemundi were organizing the Rath Yatra, though the grandest festival in terms of scale and popularity takes place at Puri.
  Moreover, Starza notes that the ruling Ganga dynasty instituted the Rath Yatra at the completion of the great temple around 1150 AD. This festival was one of those Hindu festivals that was reported to the Western world very early. Friar Odoric of Pordenone visited India in 1316-1318, some 20 years after Marco Polo had dictated the account of his travels while in a Genoese prison. In his own account of 1321, Odoric reported how the people put the "idols" on chariots, and the King and Queen and all the people drew them from the "church" with song and music.
caption: Bhajan Mandli 2
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