High medieval · Hindu · India

Mausimaa Temple

Kulada, Ganjam district, Odisha · 19.7105°, 84.7542°

Ardhasini (Mausi Maa, aunt of Jagannath)Undetermined—

Sacred since

1000 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

dating unrecorded

Undetermined

History & significance

A temple in the village of Kulada, about 8 km from Bhanjanagar in Ganjam district, whose presiding goddess is Ardhasini, worshipped as the maternal aunt of Jagannath. Its Ratha Yatra brings Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra to the goddess by chariot.

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