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The holy land of Odisha is divided into four kshetras. These kshetras are named after the four names of weapons of Lord Vishnu such as sankha (conch shell) chakra (disc) gada (mace) and padma (lotus). Puri Dham is known as Sankha Kshetra. This is a small temple with the main diety as the same as Puri jaganath temple. Lord Balaramar Subhatra and Lord Jaganath . Inside the main sanctum there is a chakra on the floor . This place is considered as Jal dham . The priest there said us that , this temple is older than Puri Jaganath temple. Though this temple is near the sea the water inside is sweet . This is a mukthi sthalam. We were asked to do abhishegam (ablution of water) to the Chakra . Those who visit Puri Jaganath temple visit this temple too . Inside the chakra thirtha temple with our tour organizer Vijiyalakshmi Sundar

This temple of Lord Krishna is in Odisha about 20kms from Puri jaganath temple. This temple was initially at Puri Jaganath temple and later was installed here . The Lord krishna is in standing posture with his one leg crossed and hands pretending to have a flute . There is Venumadhav and Rukmini the procession diety in a seperate shrine . There is a seperate shrines of Lord Ganesha and Lord Anjineyar too . One of the sacred tourist destination of Odisha, Sakhigopal (alternatively spelt as Sakhigopala or Sakshi Gopal) is a village of historical importance which is situated 19 kms. north of Puri on the way to Bhuvaneswar. It is the most famous spot of Odisha for coconut industry. The singular national importance of the place is the famous Sakhigopal temple. It is one of the top calibrekrishna temple of the country. It is a saying that unless Sakhigopal is visited the piligrimage to Puri is not complete. There is a large influx of piligrims on festive days like AnlaNabami, Dolapurnima,Cha...

Gundicha Temple has some interesting legends related to it. One legend says that Gundicha was the queen of the King Indradyumna, the legendary founder of the 1st great Jagannath temple. It is because of the deep devotion of the queen Gundicha, Lord Jagannath prefers to pay a visit to her house for nine days during Car Festival. Another Legend says Gundicha Ghar is the house of Lord Krishna’s adoring aunt Gundicha. It is believed that their aunt gives a welcome to the three siblings with a special delicacy made of rice called ‘padoapitha’. This rice cake is also known as ‘Podapitha’ or ‘Porapitha’. This temple is regarded as equally holy as Jagannath temple as Lord Jagannth stays here for nine days during the annual car festival. The temple built in typical Kalingan style . The temple is sorrounded by a wall and stands in the middle of a garden. The height of the wall is 20 feet and width is 5 feet. The length of the temple is 430 feet. The height of this temple is 75 feet. The temple c...

The holy land of Odisha is divided into four kshetras. These kshetras are named after the four names of weapons of Lord Vishnu such as sankha (conch shell), chakra (disc), gada (mace) and padma (lotus). Puri Dham is known as SankhaKshetra. This temple is one among the chardham kshethram. This temple is in Odisha . Others being Rameswaram , Badrinath and Dwaraka .This temple is being referred as Bhojan dham (food) . There’s is a dwajasthambam at the entrance of the temple which was in Konark before, it is said King Chatrapathi Shivaji brought it from Konark and installed here . The main dwara consists of 22 steps which represents 18 puranas and 4 vedas . Here the main deity is Lord Jaganath along with Subhatra His sister and Balarama His brother . This temple has 4 entrance simham dwar elephant dwar, horse dwar and tiger dwar named also named as dharma artha kama moksha dwaram through dharma dwar general peoples are allowed , through artha dwar King and his officials are allowed , throu...

The present Sun temple in Konark is also known as ” Black pagoda “. Its 36 kms from Puri in Odisha . Kona means corner and arka means Sun . The height of the temple is 228 feet . The temple is fitted with 24 wheels and 7 horses in the form of a chariot of Sun God . Its architecture and sculptures are a sheer poetry on stone . The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore was so moved by its beauty and said “Here the language of man is defeated by the language of the stone “. There are 3 forms of Sun God . The Southern side God called ” Mithra ” is described as the Rising sun is in 8’3″ in height . The western side is called ” Punsan ” is described as Mid ‐ day Sun its height is 9’6″ and the Northern side God is described as ” Haritasva ” is described as setting Sun , its height is 3.58 metres . The Sun temple was constructed as Chariot of Sun God . 24 wheels have been affixed to the platform. Each wheel 9’9″ in diameter having 8 spokes . The entire wheel is full of fine art works. The 24 wheels...