The Nabanna (new rice) during the Nuakhai festival in Sambalpur, Odisha, is first offered to which deity?
Maa Samaleswari
Nuakhai is the most important agrarian festival of Western Odisha. During the festival, the Nabanna (first harvested new rice) is first offered to Maa Samaleswari, the presiding deity of Sambalpur, at a fixed auspicious time (lagna) determined by the priests of the Samaleswari Temple. Only after this offering do people partake in the new rice themselves.
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