Baidya Binayak Mishra (Doctor of Lord Jagannath) Bhubaneswar, June 21: When I and my friend were returning from Gobardhan Peetha in Puri, on the way my friend stopped his bike and showed me an ancient building with gothic designed gateway informing that the building was the house of a servitor of Sri Mandira. I was not surprised with the sudden invention of my friend as I know some of servitors of Lord Jagannath. When he said that the servitor is the doctor (Baidya) of three deities (Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra), I get amused and made up my mind to meet the doctor. I knocked at the door to know how he performs his duty as doctor and what type of medicines he prepares for the deities and on which day. An old woman opened the door and invited us to the drawing room. After a few minutes wait, an old man came and inquired about our visit. During the discussion I got to know that he was Baidya Binayak Mishra, grandson of noted Baidyaratna Maguni Brahma o...
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