It is the festival of Mahima religion Sadhus (holy men) in the month of February. In their main monastery at Joranda near Dhenkanal annually. The unique worship of supreme sadhus’ (who wear only lean tree bark on their lower part) at their monastery and the holy fire which is for peace and harmony for the universe with 11 ft. Fire stand attract many thousand visitors and devotee throughout the state.
1) Gruha Tyagi – (Primary) – Those are students in preliminary stage they mediate and completely dedicate in this religion and the disciple of Supreme sadhus. / wearing saffron color two piece of cotton cloth.
2) Kaupuni Dhari – (Secondary) – after 12 years of dedication and disciple the supreme sadhu committee decided them to promote primary to Secondary/ wearing saffron color very lean cloth tie by organic rope on their waist to cover only the lower private part.
3) Bakala Dhari (supreme) – after 12years of dedication and disciple of the supreme sadhus committee decide them to promote secondary to Supreme / the supreme sadhu leave all the cotton cloth / wear only two piece of tree bark (locally that tree called “Kumbhi”)/ almost all supreme sadhus matted hair is more than 2 meters long. During festival these Supreme sadhus only allow to worship the main monastery of infinity with big fire stand.
The unique worship by supreme sadhus’ (who wear only lean tree bark on their lower part) at their monastery and the holy fire which is for peace and harmony for the universe with 11 ft. Fire stand attract many thousand visitors and devotee throughout the state.
Location of this festival: Joranda (Sadhu Monastry) is 25 km from Dhenkanal and 90 km from Bhubaneswar.
Nearest Airport Bhubaneswar – 100 km (2.30hr drive)
Nearest Railway station – Dhenkanal 25km (45mnt drive), Major Rail head – Cuttack- 75km- (2hr drive)
Our suggested program cover the most colourful Joranda Sadhu (Fair) festival at Joranda, Dhenkanal with the wonderful tribal part of Orissa , beautiful landscape , isolated ethnic village to western and coastal part of Orissa and many more.
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Note: We can combine of Joranda sadhu festival in Orissa tour with Rajim Kumbha Mela (Fair) Festival ( 12th – 26th February 2025) in Chhattisgarh, because both fair are close by dates for more details on festival, please mail to us bubu@heritagetoursorissa.com or whatsaap to 9437281436 / 9437023656.
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