Divine diplomacy-how Jagannath shaped a millennium of Indian politics

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Amidst the 2024 Jagannath Rath Yatra, Anirudh Kanisetti dives into the god's medieval origins, during which Jagannatha participated in a struggle for regional dominance between the Chola, Ganga, and Kakatiya dynasties. As it turns out, Jagannath is much more than Puri: he reveals the flow of ideas and innovations across a huge swathe of southern India.
Sources:
Eschmann, Anncharlott, Kulke, Hermann and Gaya Charan Tripathi (eds.) The Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa. Delhi: Manohar, 1978.
Kulke, Hermann and Bhairabi Prasad Sahu (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the State in premodern India. Delhi: Routledge, 2022.
Vasudevan, Geeta. The Royal Temple of Rajaraja: An Instrument of Imperial Cola Power. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 2003.
Heitzman, James. Gifts of Power: Lordship in an Early Indian State. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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@sitaramsahoo811 25 күн бұрын

Rahuta means king son of god😂 who defined you that. First of all you spell it wrongly. It's Routa meaning servant. Powerful Gajapati king Kapilendradev titled himself as Routaroy meaning servant king of lord Jagannath.

@daspov4709 24 күн бұрын

Just a warning, don't mess with odisha people and with their beloved Jagannath. See what we have done with BJD and V K Pandian.

@surajrshetty 24 күн бұрын

Adi Sankarayacharya declared Jagannatha as one of the Char Dhams. So Jagannatha must have existed and popular before the time you are mentioning. Your theory doesn’t fit well.

@vishaldasgupta4573 24 күн бұрын

Omg now we need to know our history , temples and our Gods from Print 😂. Do wjay you do the best propaganda and false reporting .

@DevaiahMedi-hj8fp 22 күн бұрын

Successfully wasted 8 minutes of valuable Time 😅😅😅 People waste their time by watching reels Me: by watching propaganda 😂😂

@sandeepbehera8411 24 күн бұрын

What a fake analogy . Do some some deep study before making a video on Jagarnath. There is no RAHUTA in Odisha. It is Routa . Where you people come from who don't know nothing and make a video on Jagarnath. Shame on you.

@user-sr6rs8rm9g 23 күн бұрын

Jagannathaha worship was prevalent in Odisha( Kalinga) even before the Ganga rulers. Inscriptions testify that Chadagangadeva only renovated an old temple. The correct word is RAUTA or RAUT , that comes from the word RAJPUTRA . Many Odia Khandayats still use it as their surname . Kalapahar attacked Odisha in 1568 , when king of Odisha Mukunda Harichandan was killed in an internal uprising. Jagannathaha is regarded as incarnation of Vishnu , one of the trinity of Hindu mythology. To tell more precisely he is none other than PURNA BRAHMA , as is evidenced in SUNYA SAMHITA of Achyutananda Das . Here He is regarded as SUNYA PURUSHA . Buddhism also influenced Jagannatha culture heavily. Perhaps, Buddha was included among AVATARAS of Vishnu in Odisha at first. We get the reference of it JAYADEVA's DASHAVATARA STOTRAM.

@sumanta4593 24 күн бұрын

Don't use catesigm Marks like brahmin and other. You have to know that that the maain pujari (badagrahi) is from sabar caste(Aadivasi). Lol . That's the reason you have never seen caste politics in Odisha because Jagannath provides equal rights to everyone. Even the king does the cleaning of road by a jhhadu on the day of rathhayatra and bahuda yatra. Do the research properly and make video

@karthikbhat5406 23 күн бұрын

Jagannatha is lord of the Universe and you are reducing him into a "state god".... Care to explain that?

@sumanta4593 24 күн бұрын

Kalapahad was hindu Brahmin guy only, he later converted to Islam to marry his muslim girlfriend from Bengal. Do the research properly take help from some odia people man

@Mrityormokshiya 23 күн бұрын

Kalapahad was actually an afghan guy. The story about him being hindu brahmin falling in love with Muslim woman but getting denied to marry so he converted as a revenge is a fantasy story made in the 19th century by some bengali poet

@sumanta4593 22 күн бұрын

@@Mrityormokshiya Dude, there are bi polar agreement between historians, one that is Afghan and another hindu. But the most accepted one in odisha is hindu origin. Because this logic makes more sense. The story is like he married the Muslim girlfriend but hindu society denied to accept, then to take revenge he attacked puri multiple times but at last he died in puri being a devotee of Jagannath/realisation.

@ansh_u_r 25 күн бұрын

Jai Jagannath..

@vaidyasethuraman452 26 күн бұрын

do you dare do a piece like this on Abrahamic faith sites?

@mohitsrivastava5197 25 күн бұрын

Why is this relevant? He has done such series on other faiths too. Go check first.

@mohitsrivastava5197 25 күн бұрын

For instance, and please do your own research on this too: he has done a video on ‘who looted Kashmiri temples’, on ‘coastal Muslims in south India’. Dude please, just fucking research before being a hurt Hindu on the internet.

@grapeshott 25 күн бұрын

Please stop this abuse on historians. It doesn't look good.

@user-oq2rk7ep8f 25 күн бұрын

I don’t even understand what were you offended by bro. He just made a presentation on the history of Jagannath. Made a representation. It is a good thing you moron!

@nagraj2k1 24 күн бұрын

Pls focus on constructive things like Bharatnatyam, Carnatic music, thayir Saddam and not on trolling

@mohansagar6601 23 күн бұрын

Nothing is mentioned of how the worship of both Shiva and Vishnu was popularized by the Bhakthi Saints of Tamil Nadu. The egalitarian and vernacular spirit of their hymns was the impetus for the Chozhans to build such magnificent structures for local gods. The Bhakthi tradition had a marked influence throughout Asia, Puri being one example of many.

@DevaiahMedi-hj8fp 22 күн бұрын

📌 Do you know the temple/Jagannath God existed even before Ramayana (even before Lord Rama)❓

@psbhati2391 12 күн бұрын

Salute to you for working so hard, researching the content, curating it and presenting it in such a fascinating way. Your perseverance is inspiring especially after the criticism you receive in comments.😊😊,👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌

@firstlastyoutube 23 күн бұрын

6:42 KALAPAHAD was a North Bengal low caste native army general converted to Islam who served the Bengal Sultanate ruled by an Afgan Dynasty

@user-sr6rs8rm9g 23 күн бұрын

@@firstlastyoutube In Dakshin Dinajpur, I came in contact with a family, who identify Kalapahar as their direct ancestor . They are BARENDRA BRAHMINS and use the surname ROY .

@utkaliyya 22 күн бұрын

do your research properly especialy while making religious topics else dont do it

@biswanathpadhy3605 19 күн бұрын

Somavansis were from central India?????

@lawyermahaprasad 26 күн бұрын

this is a very very shoddy reportage . The angle of politics and god and jagganath was admirable but the story is as shallow/deep as a pot hole.

@janituajanakahinheu3202 23 күн бұрын

GAJAPATI GOUDESWARA NABAKOTI KARNATA KALABARGESWARA SRI SRI SRI KAPILENDRA DEVA

@manjulashanmugasundaram706 25 күн бұрын

Congratulations ! The comment section shows growing abuses.

@prponline33 25 күн бұрын

This video is purely meant to demean the origin & sagacity of the Jagannath culture by giving a modified & medieval touch to it. The ill motive of western media is well understood here

@TheVikya 23 күн бұрын

You have forgotten role of maratha warriors to reestablish Puri yatrat

@sudarshannanda8121 23 күн бұрын

Please edit the line "Jagannath" as "Mahaprabhu Jagannath". .......its offending to the deity !

@krushnachandranaik8289 25 күн бұрын

The story did not have to start with the cholas, puri was an established pilgrimage centre much before the rise of the cholas in southern India. Lingaraj temple was probably built to rival the cholas, but these sites were important holy places much before the temple building boom, that fact is necessary, if we are really tracing the history of Puri.

@grapeshott 25 күн бұрын

Jagannath temple's main emergence was after the Cholas. Before that it was a small temple, or perhaps may be even a Buddhist site

@brahm-ahamasmi 25 күн бұрын

Your comment doesn't contradict the video. He does mention that the cult was appropriated by the dynasty, it was not created by them.

@krushnachandranaik8289 24 күн бұрын

@@grapeshott bro cite your sources, I am fed up of people claiming Jagannatha temple to be a Buddhist site without any evidence. Then remains the temple building, the size of a temple doesn't signify it's popularity. The present day temple might have taken this massive shape in competition with the Cholas, but the pilgrimage was much bigger much before the Cholas, Go read Prof. SN Rajguru. That is the reason Puri thrives, whereas great chola temples are not that popular even today.

@krushnachandranaik8289 24 күн бұрын

@@brahm-ahamasmi nobody appropriated the cult. The political leaders had to submit to the cult for their own consolidation of power. I don't think the gangas called themselves children of the deities ever. Rise of Jagannath was not due political powers, the political forces had to give in to the cult to grab onto power. There is a difference between the two.

@krushnachandranaik8289 24 күн бұрын

Puri was a large pilgrim centre before the Cholas i.e.

@mohitsrivastava5197 25 күн бұрын

I really admire the research and sheer effort that you put in explaining and contextualising complicated histories of regions, gods and peoples. It’s rare and I hope you continue to do the good work. I recommend your series to a lot of friends of mine.

@reach2prasanna 25 күн бұрын

Dude you seem to be a paid bot from The Print or from the author. While everyone is criticizing the content of the video you're supporting it everywhere. By the way, do tell us how much you're being paid. We'd jump in too.

@krushnachandranaik8289 24 күн бұрын

@@mohitsrivastava5197 the research lacks vigour. Wrong facts thrown left right and centre. Bro just reads one historian and jumps off to predesigned baseless inferences.

@bikramsen9952 26 күн бұрын

Did anybody else have a horrible experience with the Pandas ? I did.

@ChinniPeri 26 күн бұрын

Keep your nasty propaganda (good or bad ) out of our sri mandir temples... people of odisha love the lord as our family members....basis of our culture , tradition and Everything...Any slander to it will not be tolerated..recent dragging the issue into politics has done enough harm already....any more than this should never ever be tolerated.

@TheLowsofSolipsism 25 күн бұрын

What's a propaganda in this? This is real history, Jagannath worship only existed post 11th century chola. Read on the history it's true. he didn't insult Odisha people.

@vellaanjan1103 25 күн бұрын

@@TheLowsofSolipsismJagannath temple was constructed in 1100s but the worship of lord jagannath as a tribal god existed much earlier and since time immemorial

@brahm-ahamasmi 25 күн бұрын

Keep your nasty propaganda (surely bad ) out of our academic research. You don't like the truth, then try spreading lies. Don't make others shut up. If you love for the "lord" depends on shutting up truth, then so be it. You need to learn that faith should not be so weak that it sublimes when exposed to truth.

@user-sr6rs8rm9g 23 күн бұрын

@@TheLowsofSolipsism What is the definition of RESEARCH? Till now we know that it demands thorough reading on the subject. I don't know whether something else can be called so . From inscriptions it is known Chadagangadeva renovated a very old temple. MADALA PANJI says " Deula bada baisama hela , eha bhanji goteman aan Kari tolaiba"( The temple has gone to ruins , another should be constructed, destroying the present) . Vaishnavism has a very ancient root in Odisha. Shankaracharya paid visit to Puri . Kharvela mentioned of KALINGA JINA which perhaps was the predecessor of Jagannatha. Indrabhuti or King Ja of Tantrik Buddhism mentioned of JAGANNATHA, perhaps to refer Buddha . Jagannathaha has a close link with Lord Buddha. In ancient time Buddhism flourished in Odisha and therefore the state has so many Buddist sites . Jainist, Buddist and Vaishnavite ..all elements are traceable in Jagannatha culture. Besides, the SAVARAs (Saora) of Odisha worships a god named KITTUNG, who resembles Jagannatha to a great extent. They have been doing so from time immemorial.So, if you are fixed on the belief that Jagannatha originated only in the mediaeval period, only as status symbol of imperial Gangas it's only travesty of truth. Now a days every thing is passed as research work. It's appaling to find that even foreign universities patronise researches that are nothing but propaganda.

@physiotubex 24 күн бұрын

Bahut Hard English....please make videos in easy english

@AmitKumarAlphaX 25 күн бұрын

WHAT AN AWE-INSPIRING PIECE OF WORK ON OUR MYTHOLOGY & HISTORY!!🔥🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤❤❤

@worldofsarthak1628 26 күн бұрын

I don't know why people are getting triggered. Virtually all great religious sites, in India or elsewhere, have complex socio-political history. Actually talking about them helps us to know the past and understand the present. Can't we see even now how the temple comes up in political discourse? Purists may try to silence or undermine these discussions but in doing so they start becoming like a mirror image of those traditions they dislike the most. Don't try to hide. Let's understand history. After all time doesn't stop whatever the history of these major cultural and religious places be the present and the future is wide open. The past is fixed like the root but branches of the future can take many new directions. Jagannatha temple is one of India's greatest religious places and we can safely say that's going to remain so for a long long time .

@mohit13reddy 25 күн бұрын

People are getting triggered because this country is largely uneducated. India has an exam system not an education system, useless degree factories produce these brainwashed donkeys.

@krushnachandranaik8289 24 күн бұрын

@@worldofsarthak1628 Bro the trigger is not bringing out the complexities. Trigger is misleading representation of the events. Any sane person who has done even a little bit of research on the Jagannath temple would not draw the conclusions and parellals that he is drawing. Predesigned inferences are the problem bhai

@yosoumya 20 күн бұрын

Kuchh v….😂….

@ShaileshKumar-io2zn 26 күн бұрын

Morivated shameless narrative spin news like the Hindu news paper 😂

@ankit1rawat 26 күн бұрын

So what do you expect? everything bhagwa and brahaminized?

@ShaileshKumar-io2zn 26 күн бұрын

@@ankit1rawat do you know what brahman and Brahmin is? Atleast try to think about the meaning of your name. Think about the words used in every video of print. The above proxy war video is another grenade into the mindscape of hindu that shivites and vaishnavites are enemies like Kamal Hassan 20 years old movie, like Muslims and Christians are not religious fanatics hindus already were. That Hinduism and India didn't exist before British and Babur 😂

@ankit1rawat 26 күн бұрын

@@ShaileshKumar-io2zn before Hindusim there were other people used to live and worship as per their customs. Not everyone in India is hindu. There are still many tribes who don't consider them to be hindu. Why would Brahmin try to make everything hindu and try to make them incarnation of their deities and make stories around them to make people believe that we all are the same. That's also a propaganda

@ShaileshKumar-io2zn 25 күн бұрын

@@ankit1rawat are you pappu balak budhi, I asked if you have the intelligence to discriminate that above video and print, mojo story, scroll, news laundry, India Today, NDTV, are propaganda outlets? Do you have the intelligence to understand when pappu said Jo log apne aap ko hindu khate hai hinsak hai it's a word play game and not meaning sangh, like yesterday Modi said in Russia it pains his heart to know children die, like when Shaheen bagh jihadis said vande matram, like kejriwal said india against corruption 😊😂

@vellaanjan1103 25 күн бұрын

@@ankit1rawatHinduism is not related worship it’s a way of life and socio cultural lifestyles. Even if you don’t believe in god you are a Hindu…..Gita itself says I am everything and I am nothing

@sachs8379 25 күн бұрын

It's a Buddhist Vihar

@India14776 25 күн бұрын

Sanchi and saranath were once Hindu temples site

@reach2prasanna 25 күн бұрын

The left / Islamists have done a great job in ensuring Hindus and Buddhists keep fighting among ourselves on who built and destroyed what so that their own actions gets ignored. You're playing into their hands. Well done.

@sachs8379 25 күн бұрын

@@India14776 in your brahminical dreams

@sachinpotdar7798 23 күн бұрын

@@sachs8379 its not it was propganda

@user-sr6rs8rm9g 23 күн бұрын

@@sachs8379 You maybe correct, may be not . Because, there is no strong evidence on your side . Though, in consideration of the similarities between Buddhism and Jagannathism some beleive in your way.

@saswatkumarpati6109 24 күн бұрын

love this

@backtotheroots5509 25 күн бұрын

Left views forwarded as news and facts. He is quoting by chery picking. 1100-1200 AD was a different time period and this man is judging those times' actions by today's standards.