Rath Yatra Row: ISKCON Resolves To Follow Puri Jagannath Temple Date

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Bhubaneswar: Amid the row over celebration of Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra in certain places outside Odisha on dates that are different from the one on which it is held at the 12th century shrine in Puri, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has decided to celebrate the festival across the country to coincide with the traditional date in Ashada Masa.

Yudhistir Govinda Das, National Director of Communications, ISKCON, said that the decision was taken at the group’s national meeting in November 2019 following a request by the Puri Gajapati Maharaja Divyasingha Deb….Please click here to read the full article.

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