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Devotees garland currency notes to Mansha devi worshipped on a floating banana raft inside Mahanadi river

Kendrapara, Sep 17 (UNI) Tradition continues with all its glory as after a gap of two years of covid pandemic, devotees at far flung Bengali dominated Batighar offered currency garland to Manasa devi.
Mansha devi was installed on a floating raft at the Mahanadi river bank on the auspicious day of Kanya Sankranti as per the Bengali almanac.
The festival is observed with religious fervor on Saturday inside the river water at the seaside coastal pocket of Barakolikhola village .
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