Kolkata. Like Puri, Rath Yatra is organized in every corner of West Bengal. Like Kolkata, the Rath Yatra is conducted in Mayapur, the headquarters of ISKCON, and devotees from abroad also participate in it, but a unique tradition is associated with the Rath Yatra of Bengal. The people of Bengal have a tradition of eating fried papad and jalebi on the day of Rath Yatra.
Rath Yatra for Bengalis means hot jalebis and fried papads, but you will be surprised to know that both these dishes are not included in the Mahabhog of the Lord at the Jagannath Temple in Odisha. Still the people of Bengal eat jalebi and papad on the day of Rath Yatra.
Although papad or jalebi both are not the dishes of Bengal. According to the information received, Jalebi is a dish of Afghanistan, while papad is a dish of Punjab and according to tradition, fried papad and jalebi are eaten a lot in Bengal on the day of Rath Yatra.
There is a tradition of eating papad and jalebi on the day of Rath Yatra in Bengal.
Astrologer Sushil Purohit explains that since Bengal and Odisha are neighboring states and used to be one state during the British rule. For this reason, many traditions of Bengal and Odisha mix together. For this reason, the Rath Yatra festival is celebrated with great pomp in Eastern India as well as in Odisha as well as in Bengal.
At the same time, Radharaman Das, Vice President of ISKCON Kolkata, says that when the Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra is taken out or bhog is offered, it is a tradition to include food and sweets are also offered along with it. Is.
According to the information received, Jalebi is mentioned in the Sanskrit texts of the 15th century, but Jalebi had taken a permanent form in the kitchen of the Mughal emperors. Maharaja Mahtavchandra Bahadur of Burdwan used to distribute Jalebi on the day of Iftar. Rabindranath Tagore's favorite dish was Jalebi.
Eating papad and jalebi has become a tradition on the day of Rath Yatra
Many people believe that one of the important fairs of rural Bengal is the Rath Mela. Hot fried jalebi is sold there and since then the relation of jalebi has been associated with Rath Yatra.
On the other hand, Papad is basically one of the ancient dishes of North India, especially Punjab and Gujarat. Although this food is mentioned in Ramayana. Papad is mentioned in the Bengali feast organized by Bhardwaj Muni for Rammantra and his Akshauhini army.
In fact, though Jalebi or Papad is not associated with the Jagannath Temple in Puri, both the dishes have been adopted by Bengalis. Especially on this Chariot Day, this special dish has become. It has reached such a stage that eating jalebi and fried papad on the day of Rath Yatra has almost become an indispensable tradition.
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