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Raja (festival)
Raja Parba or Mithuna Sankranti ((オリヤー語:ରଜ ପର୍ବ)) is a four-day-long festival and the second day signifies beginning of the solar month of Mithuna from, which the season of rains starts. It inaugurates and welcomes the agricultural year all over Odisha, which marks, through biological symbolism, the moistening of the sun dried soil with the first showers of the monsoon in mid June thus making it ready for productivity. Its 2015 date is June 14–16.〔http://www.nuaodisha.com/ContentDetails.aspx?cid=3550&todo=events〕
==Mythology==
It is believed that the mother goddess Earth or the divine wife of Lord Vishnu undergoes menstruation during the first three days.The fourth day is called as Vasumati gadhua or ceremonial bath of Bhudevi.The term Raja has come from Rajaswala (meaning a menstruating woman) and during medieval period the festival became more popular as an agricultural holiday remarking the worship of Bhudevi,
who is the wife of lord Jagannath.
A silver idol of Bhudevi is still found in Puri Temple aside Lord Jagannatha.
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