yatra
यात्रा yātrāPilgrimage; a journey to sacred places, such as the circuit of the twelve jyotirlingas.
Where this term appears
- What is Tirtha? Pilgrimage in Hindu Life Temples
Yatra means the journey or pilgrimage, and tirtha-yatra is the pilgrimage to a sacred place.
- Jagannath Puri and the Ratha Yatra Temples
The Ratha Yatra and the word "juggernaut" Once a year the deities leave the temple.
- Konark: The Sun Temple Temples
The Sun Temple at Konark, in Odisha on India's east coast, was built by the Eastern Ganga king Narasimhadeva I in the mid-13th century and dedicated to Surya, the…
- The Char Dham Temples
The eastern corner of that journey, the strange and beautiful cult of the wooden lord, has its own story in the article on Jagannath of Puri and the Ratha Yatra.
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
To pilgrimage the full set, the dvadasa-jyotirlinga yatra , is, in the tradition's imagination, to trace Shiva's presence across the entire breadth of the land.
- Tirupati: The Temple of Venkateshwara Temples
…al; the two reward reading together, and Jagannath Puri and the Ratha Yatra is the companion case.
- Why do so many temples face east? Temples
Most classical Hindu temples face east so that the deity, seated in the sanctum, looks toward the rising sun and is met by the first light of dawn. East is the…
- The body of the city Treatise
The outermost is the great Chaurasi-koshi Yatra , the circuit of eighty-four kroshas , a vast loop that swings far out into the countryside and marks the widest bound of the holy field.