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Art N Soul: Textiles for Lord Jagannath, and its 'Sacred Business'
B.N. Goswamy
A search for new clothes for Lord Jagannath during navakalevara—a ceremony of periodic renewal (every 12 years) of the wooden images in Puri’s Jagannath temple—unravels the business in sacred textiles. Prof. B.N. Goswamy writes about what goes into such a search and its trial. (Photo courtesy:…
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