Hera Panchami festival is one of the main rituals observed during Puri Jagannath Rath Yatra in Gundicha Temple, Orissa. In 2025, Hera Panchami date is June 30. In 2025, Jagannath Rath Yatra begins on June 27.
It is celebrated on Ashada Shukla Panchami, fifth day in bright fortnight of Ashad month in Oriya calendar.
Hera Panchami festival is dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi who appears anxious because her husband (Jagannath) forgets to take her. When Lord Jagannath returns from his journey he forgets to take her along with him. Goddess Lakshmi enters the Gundicha Temple through Badadanda and returns secretly from the ‘Heragohri Sahi’ after breaking a small piece of Nandigosha Ratha. It is all to teach a lesson to her beloved husband.
Lord Jagannath is stopped at Kalahata Dwara on his return journey to his sanctum. There he convinces his beloved wife and on their reunion Rasagollas are offered as Prasada.
The festival of Hera Pancami is held five days after Rathayatra and falls on the seventh July this year and not as written above.
The Ratha Yatra takes place two days after the new moon in Gemini every year and Here Pancami is the fith day after that i.e. Sasti thiti.
hera panchami is on which date of oriya calendar 2023