Car Festival en · PROPN
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(India) Ratha Yatra.
A seat in the car of Jagannatha during the Car Festival at Puri is a great privilege to the devout and implies great social prestige also as the Gajapati monarchs of Orissa used to ride in it. Their descendants do so today.
1960, Mayadhar Mansinha, History of Oriya Literature, Sahitya Akademi, page 92: