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Chariots roll again: Thousands celebrate Nabakalebara Rath Yatra
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Pilgrims gather during Nabakalebar Rathayatra Festival in Puri, Odisha. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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A kid devout dressed as Lord Hanuman during Nabakalebar Rathayatra Festival, in Puri, Odisha, India, on Saturday, July 18, 2015. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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Three chariots during Nabakalebar Rathayatra Festival in Puri, Odisha, on Saturday. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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Lord Jagannath during Dhadi Pahandi - the procession from temple to the chariots - at the grand road (Bada Danda) during Nabakalebar Rathayatra Festival in Puri, Odisha, on Saturday. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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Devi Subhadra during Dhadi Pahandi - the procession from temple to the chariots - at the grand road (Bada Danda) during Nabakalebar Rathayatra Festival in Puri, Odisha, on Saturday. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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Lord Balabhadra during Dhadi Pahandi - the procession from temple to the chariots - at the grand road (Bada Danda) during Nabakalebar Rathayatra Festival in Puri, Odisha, on Saturday. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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Lord Jagannath's daily life materials during Nabakalebar Rathayatra Festival in Puri, Odisha, on Saturday. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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Nabakalebara is the most important festival in Odisha's festival calendar and takes place once every 12 or 19 years in the temple town of Puri for renewing the wooden idols of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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An Overview of the Grand road ahead of the Nabakalebar Ratha Yatra during preparations, in Puri, Odisha, on Thursday, July 16, 2015 (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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Bada Danda (Grand Road) in Puri was chock-a-block as the sacred wood of Lord Jagannath made its way to the temple. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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Puri beach, India: A camel carrying tourist walks near Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik's sand sculpture on Nabakalebara at Golden Sea Beach Puri, some 65 km from Bhubaneswar on April 8. The term Nabakalebara is an ancient ritual associated with most of the Jagannath Temples when the idols of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Sudarshan are replaced by a new set of idols. A year of Ashadha of the Hindu calendar is auspicious for conducting the ceremony and this usually occurs every twelve to nineteen years. The deities are made from a special type of Neem wood known as Daru Bramha and preparations for the ceremony start in the month of Chaitra. (Photos: AFP)
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Rupakara (carpenters) giving final touches to the horse chariots for Nabakalebara Rath Yatra, in Puri, Odisha. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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An elaborate process is followed to identify the "daru" or sacred neem trees from which the news idols would be carved out before the Nabakalebara Rath Yatra. (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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Rupakara (carpenters) giving final touches to the Horse chariots for Nabakalebara Ratha Yatra, in Puri, Odisha, on Thursday, July 16, 2015 (Arabinda Mahapatra/ HT Photo)
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