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NILACHALAଶ୍ରୀମନ୍ଦିର
The dark rekha deula of Shree Mandira at sunset, Patitapavana flying from the Neela Chakra.

Puri · Nilachala

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The living desk of Nilachala. Puri time, the niti of this hour, the next observance, and your mala — on one screen.

Live darshan

The count stays on this phone.

Puri time

Monday, 5 October

Asia/Kolkata. The clock moves by itself.

This hour

ପହୁଡ଼

Pahuda

4 h 36 min until Dwaraphita

Still ahead

ତୁଳା ସଂକ୍ରାନ୍ତି

Tula Sankranti

Open the patra

Your mala

Bead 0 of 108

0 full rounds on this phone

Study of Lord Jagannath: black face, great circular eyes, a crown of marigold and jasmine.

Living darshan

ଚକା ଆଖି

The round eye. A study made for Nilachala, not a photograph from the sanctum.

Go straight in

Six doors. The count stays on this phone. Nothing here is a ticket or a seva.

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Live darshan

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From Shree Mandira, when the channel is on.

Live

The picture is Jay Jagannath TV, the devotional channel of Namita Agrawal. Nilachala does not operate the camera, and neither does this page speak for the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration. The player follows that channel’s current broadcast — the one open now on the link you gave. Sound begins only when you press play. If the day’s live has ended, YouTube keeps the last picture until the next one starts.

This broadcastThe channel’s live page

Study of Lord Jagannath: black face, great circular eyes, a crown of marigold and jasmine.

Darshan

ଚକା ଆଖି

The round eye.

The form has no hands. The tradition does not treat that as a lack. At night the face goes under flowers — Badasinghara besha — and the eyes are left clear. That is the darshan people wait in the dark for.

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Study of Balabhadra, pale-faced, with large circular eyes.

Ratna Singhasana

ବଳଭଦ୍ର

Balabhadra

The elder. White face. Taladhwaja moves first.

Study of Subhadra, golden-faced, with circular eyes.

Ratna Singhasana

ସୁଭଦ୍ରା

Subhadra

Golden, in the middle. Her chariot is Darpadalana.

Study of Jagannath, black-faced, with great circular eyes.

Ratna Singhasana

ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ

Jagannath

Mahaprabhu. He rides last, on Nandighosha.

Suna Besha: the three forms under gold, round eyes still clear.

The dresses of the Lord

ବେଶ

From flowers at night to gold on the chariots

Badasinghara every night. Suna Besha. Gajanana on the bathing day. Padma when the lotus comes.

The three chariots on the Bada Danda.

Ashadha

ରଥଯାତ୍ରା

Sixteen, fourteen, twelve

Put a hand on the rope. Taladhwaja leads. Nandighosha comes last. Gundicha is three kilometres.

The white shrines and the dark deula in morning light.

Shree Mandira

ଶ୍ରୀମନ୍ଦିର

The deula, four gates, twenty-two steps

About 214 feet of stone. A flag changed every day. Mahaprasad from the Rosasala.

Lamp-lit boats on Narendra tank at night, Chandan Yatra.

Sankha Kshetra

ଶଙ୍ଖକ୍ଷେତ୍ର

The conch, the road, the sea

Bada Danda, Gundicha, Narendra tank, Mahodadhi. Puri is not only the tower.

How to be here

Six rooms. One kshetra.

Say the name on the first screen. A round is 108. The count is yours, on this phone — not a tally kept by the temple. The niti clock follows Asia/Kolkata. Festival dates on the patra are published ones. Nothing here is a ticket, a seva booking, or a claim to speak for the temple administration.

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Niti hours are the customary windows. A festival, a slow seva, or the Lord’s own pace can move the next one. Images here are studies made for Nilachala — not photographs issued by the temple. A detail may differ from the murti you meet in Puri.