SARANA SRIKSHETRA (MARADA MANDIR)

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LORD JAGANNATH KEPT HIDDEN IN THIS PLACE. WHEN KALAPAHADA ATTACKED PURI MAIN JAGANNATH TEMPLE TIME TO TIME THE THEN KING BROUGHT LORD JAGANNATH FROM PURI TO THIS PLACE TO HIDE JAGANNATH BY MAKING ONE FALSE CEILING IN THIS TEMPLE AND KEPT LORD JAGANNATH ON THIS CEILING WHICH CALLED MARADA OR BHADI. FROM MAIN HALL TAMPLE FLOOR TO THE FALSE CEILING FOOD GRAIN/DAL BAGS KEPT UPTO THE CEILING OR MARDA THEN ON THE TOP OF THE MARDA OR CEILING LORD JAGANNATH KEP IN HIDING POSITION TO CONFUSE THE ATTACKER KALAPAHADA. DUE TO THIS PLACE OF TEMPLE IS CALLED MARDA MANDIR AND JAGANNATH TAKEN SHELTER HERE SO THIS PLACE IS CALLED SARAN SRIKSHETRA. THIS PLACE IS 2KM FROM MATHURA VILLAGE (WHERE THE MAIN ARTICHET AND ARTISTS BISU MOHARANA AND HIS SON DHARMAPADA MOHARANA BORN AND BROUGHT TO CONSTRUCT THE BLACK PAGODA OR KONARAK TEMPLE.