Sri Jagannath Puri Annual Ratha Jatra -2019 - by KJS Chatrath

 

Annual Ratha Jatra of Lord Jagannath at Puri, Odisha, India, 2019. Over 1000000 devotes attended the same. Yes, all the zeroes have been correctly put.

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