Puri
Location of Puri
Location	20°58′ N 72°54′ E
State	Orissa
District	Puri
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Altitude	? metres
Area	? km²
Population (2001)	?
Density	?/km²
Codes   • Postal   • Telephone   • Vehicle	? +0? ?
Time zone	IST (UTC +5:30)

Puri is a city in the Indian state of Orissa, which is famous for having a Jagannath temple. Puri is situated on the coast of Bay of Bengal and is a popular beach resort. Religiously, Puri became famous in modern times from the time spent here by Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the 16th century. Image File history File links Please help Wikipedia:Wikiproject Indian cities by marking out the location on a blank map and releasing it under a free licence. ... India is subdivided into 28 states, 6 union territories and a national capital territory. ... Orissa (2001 provisional pop. ... The divisions of a district. ... A question mark is a punctuation mark. ... Altitude is the elevation of an object from a known level or datum, called zero level. ... The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International dUnités). ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 - A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in Seattles Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time zone for India. ... Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, is an atomic realization of Universal Time or Greenwich Mean Time, the astronomical basis for civil time. ... Orissa (2001 provisional pop. ... Lord Krishna Krishna (कृष्ण, Sanskrit for black), is, according to common Hindu tradition, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. ... Kihryuzan Senjo-ji Temple, by Toyota Kokai (1780-1850) The word temple has different meanings in the fields of architecture, religion, geography, anatomy, and education. ... Deities of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (right) and Sri Nityananda (left) at Radha-Krishna temple in Radhadesh, Belgium Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (also transliterated Chaitanya) (1486 - 1534), was an ascetic Hindu monk and social reformer in 16th century Bengal, India (present-day West Bengal and Bangladesh). ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...

Puri is the site of one of the four cardinal "Peetham's" established by Sri Adi Shankaracharya, the others being those at Sringeri, Dwaraka and Jyotirmath Adi Shankara Adi Shankara (Shri Shankaracharya, Adhi Shankaracharya; the first Shankara in his lineage), reverentially called Bhagavatpada Acharya (the teacher at the feet of Lord) (very approximately 788–820 C.E., but see below) was the most famous Advaita philosopher, who had a profound influence on the growth of Hinduism... Sringeri is the site of the first matha established by the Adi Sankaracharya, the 8th century Hindu reformer and exponent of the Advaita Vedanta philosophy. ... Dwarka is a city in Gujarat, India. ... Jyotirmath, also called Jyotir Math and Joshimath, is a place in Uttaranchal, India in the Himalayas. ...

Puri is also famous for its annual Ratha Yatra, or "Festival of Chariots", when the deities Jagannath, Baladeva, and Subhadra, are brought out of the temple, and placed in a chariot procession. This festival occurs on various dates of the Gregorian calender, typically in the June or July months. Jagannath(far right) with his brother Balarama(far left) and sister Subadra (center) in Radhadesh, Belgium Jagannath is a Sanskrit term used to describe a deity form of Krishna. ... June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...

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