The month of Karthik is celebrated in his name as the virtues of Shivaputra Karthikeya are completely different. This is because the only son born to Shiva Parvati will kill Tarakasur. As soon as Vishnu arrived there during the chanting after Shiva Parvati’s marriage, Mother Parvati was very embarrassed and cursed Vishnu to be the Ashwattha tree and Shiva to be the banyan tree. As soon as Shiva’s blood flowed down, the Ganges River carried her, and they became pregnant as the blood was placed in their mouths while bathing in the Kritikadi Sada Devakanya Ganga. As he grew up,…
Author: Subhashree
The Kichkeshwari temple is located in Khiching, Mayurbhanj district. Here Maa Kichkeshwari is worshiped. It is 150 km from Baripada and 205 km from Balasore. Far away. The temple is built entirely of stone. The Kichkeswari temple was built between 920 and 926 AD by the then Bhanj dynasty of Mayurbhanj. As the temple was demolished for various reasons, Maharaja Pratap Chandra Bhanjdeo began its restoration work in 1934. The restoration work was completed in 1942. About 60 percent of the stone was left in the temple, while 40 percent was in the new stone. The new stone was brought…
Aighara or Aighara Pune is a traditional Oriya mass festival. On this day, the worship of the fire god is celebrated. In many states of India, including Odisha, the festival is celebrated in different ways. In it, a bamboo rope is placed in an open courtyard at the head of the village, and a fire god is placed in a straw hut. The flames originating from the black body of the blacksmith are collected in the shell and stored in flour made of straw. For this, the fire is collected after the blacksmith of the village wipes his shawl and…
The ancient Ashtasambhu Peetha is located in the village of Kualo in the Parajang block of the Kamakshanagar sub-division of Dhenkanal district of Odisha. New energy was created in the 1990s, as energy around the penis was destroyed. The height of the main temple, which was demolished, is about eighty feet high. There is a statue of Gangayamuna at the door of the Kankeshwar temple and a statue of Ardhanarishwar on the west wall. Dashbhuja Mahishmardini Durga is located in a special place on the east side of the pedestal. This goddess is known as Kankeshwari or Kanakdurga. The eight…
Also known as the Karthik full moon, Ras or Ras full moon. The festival is associated with the ethics, customs and religious sentiments of Odisha. The festival is unique in Utkal’s ancient history and maritime history in Odisha. The festival is followed by the autumn worship of the fort and the worship of the moon and Kali. Dev Senapati Chir Kumar Karthikeya’s worship is performed this month in the suburbs of Odisha. Odisha’s Adikabi Shudramuni Sarla Das describes the sanctity of the month of Kartik at the beginning of the Mahabharata. On the full moon day of Kartik, Bhojraj and…
The first count of the solar year begins with the Baishakh Sankranti (the day of the Sun’s Aries infection) or Pana Sankranti. This is the first day of the solar eclipse. From this day on, the new word count begins. The beginning of the Oriya New Year is scientifically sound and its calculation is based on the number of solar eclipses. The method is believed to have originated in Odisha’s first astronomer, Satanandacharya. There are five types of motion on Earth, three of which are direct and two that are indirect. The oscillation speed is one of the three direct…
Odissi is a classical dance and music tradition prevalent in India and started in Odisha. The Government of India has included Odissi dance in classical dance and Odissi music in Odissi music. Odisha was part of Kalinga at that time, and the idols of the dancers found in the caves of Ranigumpa, Swargapuri and Manchpuri caves excavated during the Kharbel period, and the dance described in the elephant cave archives, are related to modern Odissi dance. In the first century BC, Odissi had become an advanced dance form in Khandagiri and Udayagiri in modern Bhubaneswar. In his plays, Bharat describes…
On the seventh day of Bhadra Shukla, the Kukukuti Brat is celebrated. It is especially prevalent in Bengal and Odisha. The ritual mainly comes from the mountainous group of Chhotanagpur area and has gradually converted to Hinduism. Cookie is their goddess. Like many Hindu deities of the past, she is worshiped by Aryan Hindus. The vow is in the form of Hinduism. The vows begin with the Yudhisthira-Sri Krishna conversation. In response to Yudhisthira’s question, Lord Krishna raised the issue of Lomash Muni. Once he reached Punyatapa Mathura. Devaki and Basudev welcomed him. Seeing Devaki’s sad face, Lomash told her…
The Khajureshwar temples in Odisha are some of the Shaiva-Shakta temples within a fence. It is located in the village of Sergarh in Baleshwar district. The temple was built between the 9th and 10th centuries. The largest of these temples was Khajureshwar. It has been destroyed. The idols were later erected and relocated. The deities in these temples are Shiva, Mahishamardini Durga, Ganesha, Vaishnavi and Purushottam. The temples are built in the style of Kalinga architecture. The unbroken walls were built in the style of khakars in the 9th century and in the style of only one bank line. The…
Jahni Osha is an Osha celebrated in Odisha. It is celebrated from the first day of the month of Ashwin to the full moon. It is celebrated by the Osha virgins and is celebrated on the full moon day of Kumar. Every afternoon during the month, the virgins worship Vrindavati at the base of the Tulsi Chura, which is full of jahniful flowers, which include leia, nectar, bananas, and cucumbers. As a song, the girls celebrate the Osha at dusk with a bang. In the afternoon, the girls make jahniful flowers and other flowers at the base of the quarry,…