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  2. Chariot racing - Wikipedia

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    The names of very few charioteers are known from the Greek racing circuits, [h] Victory songs, epigrams and other monuments routinely omit the names of winning drivers. [ 28 ] The chariots themselves resembled war chariots, essentially wooden two-wheeled carts with an open back, [ 29 ] though by this time chariots were no longer used in battle.

  3. Ratha Yatra - Wikipedia

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    The largest chariot belongs to Lord Jagannath and is named Nandighosa. Taladhwaja belongs to Balabhadra and Darpadalana to Subhadra. The Chariot Festival: Day One In a custom known as Pahandi, the gods are ceremoniously taken out of the Jagannath Temple on the day of the Ratha Yatra. Devotees are dancing and chanting in the streets during this ...

  4. Ratha Yatra (Puri) - Wikipedia

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    The three chariots of Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra are newly constructed every year with wood of specified trees like phassi, dhausa, etc.They are customarily brought from the ex-princely state of Dasapalla by a specialist team of carpenters who have hereditary rights and privileges for the same.

  5. Festival of Chariots - Wikipedia

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    Chariot being pulled by Devotees. The festival of Chariots originated in India in a city called Jagannatha Puri. The festival has been used in Vishnu-related traditions in Hinduism along with other traditions such as Daoism. The festival celebrates Lord Krishna return to Vrindavan. Vrindavan is a town in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh ...

  6. Biga (chariot) - Wikipedia

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    Other Latin words that distinguish chariots by the number of animals yoked as a team are quadriga, a four-horse chariot used for racing and associated with the Roman triumph; triga, or three-horse chariot, probably driven for ceremonies more often than racing (see Trigarium); and seiugis or seiuga, the six-horse chariot, more rarely raced and ...

  7. Jagannath - Wikipedia

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    The annual festival called the Ratha yatra celebrated in June or July every year in eastern states of India is dedicated to Jagannath. His image, along with the other two associated deities, is ceremoniously brought out of the sacrosanctum (Garbhagruha) of his chief temple in Puri (ଶ୍ରୀ ମନ୍ଦିର, Śrī Mandira).

  8. Quadriga - Wikipedia

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    The word derives from the Latin quadrigae, a contraction of quadriiugae, from quadri-: four, and iugum: yoke. In Latin the word quadrigae is almost always used in the plural [1] and usually refers to the team of four horses rather than the chariot they pull. [2] In Greek, a four-horse chariot was known as τέθριππον téthrippon. [3]

  9. Chariot - Wikipedia

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    The word chariot itself is derived from the Norman French charriote and shares a Celtic root (Gaulish: karros). Some 20 iron-aged chariot burials have been excavated in Britain, roughly dating from between 500 BC and 100 BC. Virtually all of them were found in East Yorkshire – the exception was a find in 2001 in Newbridge, 10 km west of ...