Horoscope Today
Opinion Poll
Konark (Orissa) : Lakhs of devotes from across the country on Friday took a holy dip at Orissa’s Chandrabhaga Beach close to Konark Sun Temple on the occasion of Magha Saptami.
Despite unprecedented cold wave, devotes took the holy dip and offered players at Sun Temple, popularly knows as Black Pagoda of India.
People in other parts of the State also took holy dips at several rive banks and offered prayers to Sun God.
Mythologies say that Lord Krishna's son Samba got rid of his diseases by worshiping the sun god.
So worshipping sun god on his birthday on the seventh day of Shukla Paksha (waxing phase of the moon) in Magha month is considered auspicious. People come to Chandrabhaga on this day to have darshan (glimpse) of the early sun.
Elaborate arrangements were made by the district administration along the Chandrabhaga coast. More than 200 policemen were deployed.
"We have set up tents along the Chandrabhaga coast. Barricades have been erected so that the devotees can go in a queue and take the dip. Keeping in view the large number of people, we have deployed policemen to manage the traffic," said Fakir Satpathy, collector of Puri district.
The average minimum temperature in Puri district Friday was 16.2 degrees Celsius, four notches below average for this time of the year.
