Jagannath Snana Yatra Wallpapers

Snana Yatra is a major festival at the Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha, observed on the full moon day of the Hindu month of Jyeshtha. It is the bathing ceremony of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra, Sudarshana, and Madanmohan. The deities are brought from the inner sanctum to the Snana Bedi (bathing platform) on the outer terrace of the temple, where they are ceremonially bathed with 108 pots of aromatic water drawn from a sacred well called Suna Kua (Golden Well). After the elaborate bathing, the deities are believed to fall ill and are taken to a secluded sick room (Anasar Ghar) for fifteen days, during which the temple doors remain closed to devotees. This period of seclusion is called Anasar or Anasara. The deities are repainted and rejuvenated during this period. Snana Yatra marks the beginning of the Rath Yatra preparations and is one of the few occasions when non-Hindus can view the deities, as the ceremony takes place on an open terrace.