[world-vedic] Jagannath Puri's New Website

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FROM INDIA-TODAY Via The Vaishnava News Network

http://ori.nic.in/jagannath

PURI, INDIA, Jul 15 (VNN) — Puri: Lord Jagannath, the presiding deity

of Sri Jagannath temple here, went on the World Wide Web on Tuesday.

The website, developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), was

inaugurated by the His Highness Gajapati Maharaja of Puri, Sri

Dibyasingha Deb, on the eve of the famous rath yatra on Wednesday.

 

The website, http://ori.nic.in/jagannath/, will provide surfers a

variety of information on the 12th century shrine and the temple town

which is also a beach resort.

 

The information available on the net includes maps, details on festive

occasions, accommodation for all income groups, pictures of the

deities, descriptions on subsidiary temples, donation schemes for the

shrine, the administrative set up, mutts and ashrams and places of

interest in the temple town, sea beach, local art and craft, shopping

arcades, devotional music and Sanskrit learning.

 

Original story at: http://www.india-today.com/ntoday/0.905.html

 

 

 

 

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