Banakalagi ritual is the facial performed on the three main deities – Jagannath, Subhadra and Balabhadra – at the world-famous Puri Jagannath temple in Odisha. The ritual is performed once in a week and mostly on Wednesday.
When Banakalagi ritual is performed devotees cannot have
darshan of the deities in the main sanctum sanctorum of the temple. It takes
nearly 4 hours for the ritual to be completed.
The ingredients used in the ritual are kasturi, harital, karpura,
kesar, kalasankha and dhalasankha.