Jagannath Puri: temple - Revision history

Jyoti: /* Shree Mandir Parikrama Prakalpa */

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‎Shree Mandir Parikrama Prakalpa

Jyoti: /* 2024/Locks broken open, valuables moved to temporary room */

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‎2024/Locks broken open, valuables moved to temporary room

Jyoti: /* Demands for opening it: 2023 */

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‎Demands for opening it: 2023

Jyoti: /* Ratna Bhandar */

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‎Ratna Bhandar

Jyoti: /* Demands for opening it: 2023 */

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‎Demands for opening it: 2023

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‎Demands for opening it: 2023

Jyoti: /* Ratna Bhandar */

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‎Ratna Bhandar

Jyoti at 09:28, 6 August 2023

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Jyoti: /* Guidelines */

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‎Guidelines

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‎Ratna Bhandar

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 “The Shree Mandir Parikrama Prakalpa belongs to every Odia and Jagannath devotee across the globe. The project will offer a divine experience to those who come to Puri for Jagannath darshan. I bow before the Puri residents for their sacrifice. Jai Jagannath,” Naveen later said.
  Government sources said Naveen’s trusted aide Pandian inspected the project’s progress at least 400 times by visiting Puri in the last over two years.
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  CM Mohan Majhi expressed his optimism on X: “Jai Jagannath. At your wish, first the four gates of the temple were reopened. Now, ratna bhandar has been reopened after 46 years. I firmly believe that the great endeavour will be successful.”
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	In its verdict pronounced last month, the HC directed the government to form a high-level committee within two months, if the SJTMC approaches it, to supervise the inventory-making of the valuables. The court, however, declined to interfere with the plan of work regarding inventory and repairs of the inner walls of the treasure house.		In its verdict pronounced last month, the HC directed the government to form a high-level committee within two months, if the SJTMC approaches it, to supervise the inventory-making of the valuables. The court, however, declined to interfere with the plan of work regarding inventory and repairs of the inner walls of the treasure house.
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		+	==2024/Locks broken open, valuables moved to temporary room==
		+	[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=15_07_2024_013_012_cap_TOI Debabrata Mohapatra, July 15, 2024: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Bhubaneswar : The door to the inner chamber of Puri Jagannath Temple’s treasury had to broken open on Sunday as the original keys have been missing since in 2018. The loss of the keys had put a halt to efforts that year of making an inventory of the valuables. The “misplaced” keys subsequently became a contentious political issue in the state.
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		+	Contrary to myths of snakes guarding the ratna bhandar, no reptiles were found when the designated team opened the chamber on Sunday. “We did not come across any snakes, insects, or reptiles,” said Puri district collector Siddharth Shankar Swain. To ensure safety, govt deployed 11 members of Snake Helpline, a voluntary unit specialising in snake rescue. “Our services were not needed as no snake was found,” said Subhendu Mallik from the helpline.
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		+	The inventory of valuables is on hold until Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) restores the ratna bhandar, which has developed cracks.
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		+	“We have shifted all the valuables from the outer chamber to a temporary strong room near the ratna bhandar. However, due to the paucity of time, we could not transfer the valuables from the inner chamber. It will be done another day,” said Arabinda Padhee, chief adminis- trator of SJTA.
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		+	Six large wooden chests were transported from Bhubaneswar to Puri for storing the valuables, with nine more in production. Justice Biswanath Rath, chairman of the committee overseeing the inventory, said the ratna bhandar was not fully dilapidated. “We found five almirahs and six or seven wooden chests (sinduka) in the inner chamber. We did not open them to check valuables.”
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		+	Govt announced that the inventory would occur inside the renovated ratna bhandar after ASI completes the conservation work.
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		+	Security in and around the 12th-century shrine has been tightened to monitor the shifting and audit of the jewellery. At least 85 RAF personnel have taken guard outside the temple, while five platoons of state police have been deployed inside. Police have installed advanced CCTV cameras in the strong room.
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		+	“Since there is no deadline for completion of the inventory work, we have asked our personnel to remain alert and vigilant in and around the temple. We request devotees to cooperate with us,” said Puri SP Pinak Mishra.
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		+	BJP had made reopening the ratna bhandar a key campaign promise during the 2024 assembly and Lok Sabha elections, held simultaneously in the state. It also comes days after govt decided to open all four gates of the temple. Before this, only the Lion’s Gate was kept open for entry and exit of devotees, while the other three had been shut since March 2020.
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		+	CM Mohan Majhi expressed his optimism on X: “Jai Jagannath. At your wish, first the four gates of the temple were reopened. Now, ratna bhandar has been reopened after 46 years. I firmly believe that the great endeavour will be successful.”
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 In its verdict pronounced last month, the HC directed the government to form a high-level committee within two months, if the SJTMC approaches it, to supervise the inventory-making of the valuables. The court, however, declined to interfere with the plan of work regarding inventory and repairs of the inner walls of the treasure house.
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+==2024 January==
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+[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/amid-religious-fervour-cm-naveen-dedicates-puri-project-to-devotees/articleshow/106938771.cms  Debabrata Mohapatra, January 18, 2024: ''The Times of India'']
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+Bhubaneswar : Amid reverberation of Vedic hymns and Jai Jagannath chants, Puri Jagannath dham, one of the four holy dhams of India, was teeming with tens of thousands of people as Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the heritage corridor project (Shree Mandira Parikrama Prakalpa) on Wednesday. Coming days ahead of the January 22 inauguration of Ram temple in Ayodhya, thousands of devotees gathered on Grand Road, braving light rain and the winter chill, to witness the unveiling of the Rs 800-crore project in the presence of Puri king Gajapati Dibyasingha Deb. The king later offered the “Purna Ahuti” to the three-day maha yajna.
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-[https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-politics/jagannath-temples-treasure-room-why-has-it-not-been-opened-8991140/   Oct 23, 2023: ''The Indian Express'']
+[https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-politics/jagannath-temples-treasure-room-why-has-it-not-been-opened-8991140/    Sujit Bisoyi, Oct 20, 2023: ''The Indian Express'']
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 In its verdict pronounced last month, the HC directed the government to form a high-level committee within two months, if the SJTMC approaches it, to supervise the inventory-making of the valuables. The court, however, declined to interfere with the plan of work regarding inventory and repairs of the inner walls of the treasure house.
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	The Jagannath Temple Act makes it mandatory to check the contents of the Ratna Bhandar every three years.		The Jagannath Temple Act makes it mandatory to check the contents of the Ratna Bhandar every three years.
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		+	==Demands for opening it: 2023==
		+	[https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-politics/jagannath-temples-treasure-room-why-has-it-not-been-opened-8991140/ Oct 23, 2023: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	The Ratna Bhandar of the Puri Jagannath Temple was last opened in 1985. Here's why the BJP and the Congress are demanding its reopening.
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		+	What is the Ratna Bhandar of the temple, why has it not been opened for years, and why is the demand to unlock it being raised now?
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		+	''' What is Puri temple Ratna Bhandar? '''
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		+	The precious ornaments of sibling deities — Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Goddess Subhadra — given by devotees and erstwhile kings over centuries, are stored in the Ratna Bhandar of the 12th century shrine. It is located within the temple and has two chambers—Bhitar Bhandar (inner chamber) and Bahara Bhandar (outer chamber).
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		+	The outer chamber is opened regularly to fetch ornaments for the deities during the Suna Besha (golden attire), a key ritual during the annual Rath Yatra, and also during major festivals throughout the year. The inner chamber has not opened in the past 38 years.
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		+	''' Who wants the Ratna Bhandar opened, and why? '''
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		+	Demands to open the Ratna Bhandar gained strength after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the custodian of the 12th-century shrine, gave a requisition for repair/conservation of the chamber. There are apprehensions that cracks have emerged in its walls that could endanger the precious ornaments stored there.
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		+	Servitors, devotees, and temple managing committee members have asked for the reopening to ascertain the safety of the structure and its contents, and to make an inventory. The Puri royal scion is also in favour of opening the Ratna Bhandar.
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		+	''' When was the Ratna Bhandar last opened? '''
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		+	According to official sources, the last inventory of the Ratna Bhandar was made between May 13 and July 23, 1978. Though it was opened again on July 14, 1985, the inventory was not updated.
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		+	According to a reply made by former law minister Pratap Jena in the state Assembly in April 2018, in 1978, the Ratna Bhandar had 12,831 bhari (one bhari equals to 11.66gm) of gold ornaments fitted with precious stones and 22,153 bhari of silver utensils, among others.
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		+	There were certain other ornaments which could not be weighed during the inventory process.
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		+	''' What is the process to open the treasure house? '''
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		+	Permission of the Odisha government is required. Following a direction from the Orissa High Court based on ASI reports, the state government had attempted to open the chamber for physical inspection on April 4, 2018. This attempt was unsuccessful because the keys of the chamber could not be found. The ASI team, thus, carried out the inspection from outside.
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		+	''' Have the missing keys been found? '''
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		+	On April 5, 2018, the then Puri collector Arvind Agarwal stated in a temple committee meeting that there was no information on the keys, which led to state-wide outrage. The Puri collector is the custodian of the key of the inner treasure.
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		+	Two months later, on June 4, 2018, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik ordered a judicial inquiry headed by Justice Raghubir Das, a retired judge of the Orissa HC, to probe the loss of the keys.
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		+	On June 13, days after the judicial inquiry was ordered, Agarwal said an envelope with “duplicate keys of inner Ratna Bhandar” written on it had been found in the record room of the collectorate.
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		+	Meanwhile, the commission submitted a 324-page report to the Odisha government on November 29, 2018. The details of the findings are yet to be made public.
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		+	''' Why has the issue resurfaced? '''
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		+	In August 2022, the ASI once again wrote to the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration, seeking its permission to inspect the inner chamber of the Ratna Bhandar. It is yet to get the permission.
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		+	Amid demand from various quarters, including eminent sand artist and SJTMC member Sudarsan Pattnaik, to reopen the treasure house, Opposition parties have been targeting the Odisha government’s “delaying tactics”.
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		+	In face of the growing demand, the temple managing committee in August recommended to the government that the Ratna Bhandar be opened during the annual Rath Yatra of 2024.
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		+	''' What has the Orissa HC said? '''
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		+	In July, former BJP president Samir Mohanty filed a PIL in the Orissa HC over the Ratna Bhandar issue.
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		+	In its verdict pronounced last month, the HC directed the government to form a high-level committee within two months, if the SJTMC approaches it, to supervise the inventory-making of the valuables. The court, however, declined to interfere with the plan of work regarding inventory and repairs of the inner walls of the treasure house.
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 The agitators also damaged a police outpost and an information centre outside the temple as well as the Town police station, prompting the police to resort to a mild lathi-charge and tear-gas lobbing to control the situation. Several police vehicles were damaged.
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	The Jagannath Temple Act makes it mandatory to check the contents of the Ratna Bhandar every three years.		The Jagannath Temple Act makes it mandatory to check the contents of the Ratna Bhandar every three years.
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		+	=YEAR-WISE DEVELOPMENTS=
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		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/article-share?article=21_03_2023_030_014_cap_TOI Debabrata Mohapatra, March 21, 2023: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Bhubaneswar : ‘Shush’ was the concern that a rat-repellent machine was removed from Jagannath temple after servitors ratted out the gadget donated by a devotee for making a humming sound that would disturb the nightly rest of the 12th-century shrine’s presiding deities — siblings Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra.
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		+	The temple authorities acceded to the request, and complaint, from the servitors that the machine’s constant buzz won’t let the deities have a sound sleep. “We have decided not to use the machine. We tried it in the sanctum sanctorum. During the product’s demonstration a few days ago, we heard a hum from the machine. The operator said the sound scares away rodents, but the servitors red-flaggedit,” said Jitendra Sahu, the temple’s administrator.
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		+	The machine was seen as a solution to the cumbersome process of setting mouse traps and releasing the caught mice outside the temple complex. Catch-and-release is the sole option because it’s forbidden to kill temple mice and so, poison is not allowedeither.
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		+	The trusty, silent traps will return to action again. “We decided to use narrowheaded pitchers and put jaggery inside to lure and catch mice,” Sahu said.  The temple has been overrun by mice lately, with the ravenous rodents chewing clothes and garlands of the deities, and littering the place with urine and faeces. Mice were seen on the Ratna Singhasan, an elevated pedestal for the deities during puja and the offering of bhog.
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		+	“We find it difficult toperform rituals with the rodents around, and their waste. The mice have been spoiling the faces of the deities,” said Satyanarayan Puspalak, a servitor.
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		+	The servitors feared for the sanctum sanctorum’s structural strength as the mice had burrowed deep inside through gaps on the stone floor. The worst comes after dark, when hordes of mice that had been hiding and dormant during the day become active. By day, the crisis is less apparent.
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		+	Servitor Gourisankar Rajguru said one or two mice were sighted a few months ago, but they multiplied dramatically and quickly. He said it’s highly likely that themice and cockroach infestation happened after they set up house in the temple during the Covid pandemic when it was closed for devotees for several months.
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	=See also=		=See also=