The priest pour down water in the deities Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra in the rituals of the Snana Yatra[ bathing festival]During the Snana Yatra, the deities are bathed with 108 pots of water, which is a mixture of coconut water and scented extracts of flowers and other fragrant ingredients like sandalwood.The Snana Yatra is a bathing festival of deities celebrated on the Purnima full moon day of the Hindu month of Jyeshtha. It is the auspicious birth day of Lord jagannath. It is an important festival for the Sanatana or Hindu dharma.This picture of the rituals of bathing festival of the deities Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra,as taken at Guptipara Brindaban chandra Temple,Hoogly,West Bengal,India.
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