Ratha Yathra Puri
27 Jun, 2025
Friday
Ratha Yathra Puri on 27-06-2025
Tithi Begin Time:
Shukla Paksha Dwitiya: Jun 26 01:24 PM – Jun 27 11:19 AM
Tithi End Time:
Shukla Paksha Tritiya: Jun 27 11:19 AM – Jun 28 09:54 AM
Nakshatra, Muhurat (Start Time):
Punarvashu Nakshatra: Jun 26 08:46 AM – Jun 27 07:21 AM
Nakshatra, Muhurat (End Time):
Pushya Nakshatra: Jun 27 07:21 AM – Jun 28 06:35 AM
About Ratha Yathra Puri 2025
Introduction to Ratha Yatra
Sri Gundicha Ratha Yatra (ଶ୍ରୀ ଗୁଣ୍ଡିଚା ରଥଯାତ୍ରା) or chariot festival, is any public procession in a chariot. They are held annually during festivals in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The term also refers to the popular annual Ratha Yatra of Puri that involves a public procession with a chariot with deities of Sri Jagannath, which is the idol of Lord Vishnu, Balabhadra his elder brother, and Subhadra his younger sister with Sudarshana Chakra his prime weapon on a wooden chariot, a temple shaped chariot.
When Ratha Yatra come in Puri?
Chariots of Lord Jagannath, better known as Ratha Yatra is celebrated every year at Sri kshetra, Puri, near the sea shore in Odisha, on the second day or Dwitiya Tithi of Shukla Paksha of Ashadha Month. This is a festival of total nine-days done with by various rituals and traditions by the temple’s Sevaks or servants.
Significance of Ratha Yatra
On their way back from the Gundicha Temple, the three deities stop for a while near the Mausi Maa Temple and have an offering of the “Poda Pitha” or rice cake which is a special type of pancake supposed to be the Lord's favourite. After a stay for seven days, the deities return to their abode. As per mentioned in the Skanda Purana, among the twelve Yatras of Lord Jagannatha, Ratha Yatra or Shree Gundicha Yatra is famous worldwide. According to ‘Bramha Samhita’ those who can witness four deities on the Simhasana of Gundicha Temple for a week, they along with their ancestors would get a place in the heavenly abode i.e. Baikuntha for all time to come. As per this text those who can hear about this great festival, they also get the desired result. Besides this, those who study the rituals of the divine festival and make other aware of the same they can also get a place in his holy abode.
Ratha Jatra, the Festival of Chariots of Lord Jagannatha is celebrated every year at Puri, the temple town in Odisha, on the east coast of India. The presiding deities of the main temple, Sri Mandira, Lord Jagannatha, Lord Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra, with the celestial wheel Sudarshana are taken out from the temple precincts in an elaborate ritual procession to their respective chariots. The chariots are huge, and displayed with colourful covered clothes and painted colourfully by which everyone’s attention draws on the “Bada Danda”. The grand avenue to the Gundicha temple, around two miles away to the North from Sri Mandir. After a stay for nine days, the deities have to return to their own place and abode in Sri Mandira.
