Fig. 2

Traditional customs related to rasgulla on Niladri Bije (i.e. the concluding day of Chariot Festival or Ratha Yatra) of Lord Jagannath. Title page of the book (‘Typical selections from Oriya literature’) published in 1921 by the University of Calcutta, edited by Bijoychandra Mazumdar, who collected and edited the Balaram Das’s fifteenth century work Dandi Ramayana (Oriya version of the Sanskrit epic of ancient India). In this book the mention of rasgulla is found in the page number 119. The Dandi Ramayana stated that several dessert items like gaja, rasabali and chena puri were offered (bhog) to Lord Jagannat and rasgulla was one of them which was offered to him from that historical period