Some time back I came across a post listing some curious and inexplicable facts about Puri, Orissa, India.
I wanted to write about it and promptly forgot to book mark.
Now I am unable to find the post.
However I came across similar information form Iskcondivinetree.
It lists some curious facts about Puri.
They are:
Story:
Wonders of the Jagannath Temple in Puri are as follows::
1.Flag always flaps in opposite direction of air.
2.From any place in Puri you will always find the Sudarshan Charka (Charka at top of Temple) facing you.
3.Normally during day-time, air comes from sea to land & during evening, the vice-versa occurs. But in Puri it’s totally opposite.
4.No bird or planes fly above the Temple.
5.The shadow of the main dome is invisible at any time of the day.
6.The quantity of cooked food inside the Temple remains same for the entire year. But that same quantity of prasadam can feed few thousand people & 20 lac people, Still it won’t get wasted.
7.In the Temple kitchen, 7 pots are kept on each other & cooked on firewood. In this process the contents in the top pot get cooked first & then the bottom one.
8.After entering from Singhadwara’s first step (from inside of the Temple), u can’t hear any sound produced by the ocean. But, when u cross the same step (from outside of the Temple) u can hear it. This can be noticed clearly during evening.
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As to the second “wonder” about that you will always find from any place of Puri the Sudarshan Charka (Charka at top of Temple) is facing to you, it is not right. I have many photos taken from many angles of the Sudarshan Charka in Puri, and I can see that Chakra is facing to different sides depending on from which side those photos are taken.
As to the shadow of the main dome is also the same: you can see from those photos that in the sunny day the shadow is clearly visible around that main dome. However, these facts do not in any way diminish the spiritual nature of the Sudarshan Chakra of Lord Vishnu! We don’t have to look for some physical evidences to prove the spiritual nature of the Sudarshan Chakra.
Does this mean that that the other features check out?
People residing in Puri may confirm this.
I had earlier posted some facts pertaining to Benares,Varanasi.
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- Flowers do not smell
- Cows do not knock you even if you touch them
- Eagles(Golden Eagle) Will not Fly over
- Corpses will nor Smell (while being burnt)
- Lizard(common Lizard) will not make sound.
Varanasi,Kasi is an important pilgrimage Center for the Hindus.”
I requested for feed back on the veracity of this.
Yet to receive the feedback.
Varanasi. please respond.
Let me add some more to this list.
Suchindrum,Kanyakumari District,Tamil Nadu.
Here all the three divinities Brahma, Vishnu and Siva are in the same Idol.
The holy place, which is 13 km from Kanyakumari, has a very big temple dedicated to the Trinity — Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. According to tradition, the top, middle and bottom portions of the image in the temple represent Siva (Sthanu), Vishnu (Maal) and Brahma (Ayan) respectively.
The place got the name of Suchindram, according to the Sthalapurana, as Indra was relieved of a curse. The term “Suchi” means purifying and the place where Indra was purified got the name of Suchindram. According to the believers, Indra even now visits the temple daily for performing “Ardhajama Pooja” in the night.
Another fact I came to know is that , if you insert a long iron string in the left ear of the Anajaneya Idol, it comes out through the other ear!
Navapaashanam, Ramanatahapuram District, Tamil Nadu.
Dharpasayanam/Thirupullani is a place where Lord Rama is reported to have worshiped the Lord Varuna, God of water and Navapaashanam is where Rama worshiped the Navagrahas before embarking on this journey to Srilanka to annihilate Ravana.
The Navagrahas are represented in stones in the sea, amidst water .
Whatever be the season and tide condition, the Navagrahas never get submerged though the area around it are, despite the ground level where these Navagrahas are located are at the same level.
Sources:
http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/profiles/blogs/eight-divine-wonders-of-sri-jagannatha-temple-puri
http://ramanisblog.in/2013/01/05/varanasi-eagle-wont-fly-flowers-corpse-dont-smellcows-dont-dash/
The food is prepared in earthen soiled pots, which resembles to French sauté pans. These pots are kept one over the other on an earthen furnace. The most interesting aspect of this cooking is that the topmost pot is cooked first and then the next below it. When the food is cooked, the wall of the pots gets hot and provides heat retention. Due to this, food remains hot for atleast 5-6 hours and tastes yummy. –
See more at: http://blog.onlineprasad.com/2013/07/11/lord-jagannaths-mahaprasad/#sthash.voy9yLBS.dpuf
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“This is the saddest piece of writing ever seen on the Indian gastronomic and cultural front.
is this the only piece of heritage that you can show off to the world? Seriously there are better things to latch onto 🙂
a thing coming form “orissa” doesn’t make it oriya 🙂
i am from orissa too but i am not oriya 🙂
chaitanna mahaprabhu did come from GEOGRAPHICAL ORISSA but back then there was no orissa, are we forgetting this?
and your dear lord ASHOKA the great wasn’t your hero too until he defeated your so called “kalinga empire”. he was a scavenger of kalinga and not a king 🙂
your bali, sumatra etc “J(y)ATRAS” came form LORD ASHOKA’S INVASION of your pillage state.
the regular oriya isn’t sweet at all, its rather very harsh, its rather the languages like sambalpuri and languages near the west bengal border where the oriya dialects turn sweeter. would you not agree?
sambalpuri is such a cute language! why are you guys stomping it down to non-exitence and these guys want their language to prosper just like yours. give them their due!
oh, btw, i forgot to mention YOUR BEST CM (infact my best CM too, one of the best CMs our country ever had) doesn’t even speak Oriya!”
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Oriya is harsh! Well it’s really clear what is harsh and what is not? 😉
By the way, why some of the Bengalis always try to take the credit of anything good about Orissa or Odisha?
Get your facts straight. People of Orissa(the one whom you call harsh) are the descendants of a race of Kalinga where even the weakest and most feeble carpenter or peasant dared to draw swords against the mighty and gigantic Mauryan Army led by a tyrant and bloodthirsty Emperor., unlike Banga of the Anga-Banga-Kalinga which surrendered to the Emperor. 🙂
And yes, get some more facts. One of the reason why Ashoka the butcher tried to invade Kalinga was that Kalinga was very prosperous at that time and Kalinga already had a trade route established with SE Asia namely JAVA, Sumatra, etc.
Get some facts from your Bengali historians(as you would believe them more).
i don’t go for much scientifical provings but if point no 6 says “The quantity of food cooked in the Temple for Lord Jagannath’s offerings remains the same for the whole year. But that same quantity of prasadam can feed a few thousand people or 20 lakh people. Still its quantity never falls short.” then why there are NGO’s operating in Puri to feed the hungry.Why can’t the hungry in puri and surrounding areas be fed with the food. It’s really a shame that the food prepared for god can be eaten by 20 million people yet the farmer who produces the food dies of hunger or commits suicide..
Yes. Inscrutable are the ways of God.
I am incensed at the way the farmers are being treated , while providing all and out of turn facilities for corporate.
There seems to be none to think of the farmer’s problems at all.I know for a fact that a farmer, who owns land has to sell of a portion of land every year to meet the mounting losses.The subsidy given to them is meager as compared .But we as a consumer pay a high price for the produce.The difference is huge.My last information was that a farmer gets Rupee Five per Kg of Rice , yet we pay anywhere between s 50-69 per Kg of Rice.Difference is pocketed by the middlemen.This is further complicated by Online trading.If you have any input on the subject, kindly forward me.Regards.
I looked up another blog on these very same facts when a friend of mine drew my attention to them. It is highly unlikely that the flag flaps in the opposite direction of the wind, as unlikely as the flag flapping on the moon. Secondly in one of the counter comments on another blog i did see a photograph of the dome casting its shadow in the temple precinct.The other facts stated are, well… insider info.
Will somebody from Puri clarify?
sir see this photograph… this is the side view of temple but cudarshan charka is facin the photographer…
http://www.hindupedia.com/en/File:Jagannath_puri_temple-image.jpg
It is fake story. i saw the pictures and analyse it is rumour totally..
So dont believe on these rumours.
It is fake story. i saw the pictures and analyse it is rumour totally..
So dont believe on these rumours.
Flag always flap in direction in which air comes..
So dont b a fool . I am also a hindu but dont beleive anything which is not relevant
I have seen with my own eyes and have shown it live to many that the flag on neelachakra flaps opposite to the direction of the wind.
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