For centuries, the Kala Kalebara Chautisa was an oral tradition sung by Gotipua dancers and Bhagabata Tungi singers in coastal Odisha. But by the 1990s, it was almost forgotten.
The final stanza ( Ksha - କ୍ଷ) of the Chautisa reads: kala kalebara chautisa pdf
The three wooden deities of the Jagannath Temple—Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, and Devi Subhadra—would secretly be given new bodies. Priests would find a sacred neem tree with a four-pronged mark, carve new idols by moonlight, and transfer the Brahma Padartha (the divine life force) from the old idols to the new. The old deities were then buried with royal rites. For centuries, the Kala Kalebara Chautisa was an
"Chautisa eka kala kalebara rahasya, Jibana morana majare nityara abhyasa." (This Chautisa is the secret of the body's change, A practice of eternity within life and death.) Priests would find a sacred neem tree with