It seems that at 1487 King of Puri, Purusottama Dev, was to marry a princess padmavati who was the daughter of a king, Maharaja Salluva Narasingha, from the kingdom of Kanchi. When the Ratha-Yatra festival was to take place, the father of the princess was invited, but sent his minister Chinnubhatta Godaranga instead.
When he attended, the King of Puri performed the devotional tradition of sweeping the road in front of the carts. The visiting minister, however, rather than being impressed with the devotion of the King for Lord Jagannatha, did not approve of him sweeping the road, even if it was for the Lord.
When he reported this to King Salluva Narasingha, the king objected to the idea of his daughter marrying the King of Puri since he was merely a street sweeper.
Purusottama Dev was extremely angry that he, as the servant of Lord Jagannatha, would be insulted for his service like that. So he gathered his troupes and went to Kanchi to teach King Salluva a lesson. Unfortunately, King Purusottama Dev was badly defeated by a massive bee formation from the trunk of vadabi ganesh ,soldiers unable to fight with the saluva troup.
On returning to Puri in such a downcast mood, he stopped at the simple cottage of Saikatacharya, a great ascetic, householder devotee of Lord Jagannatha.
This devotee pointed out that the King had forgotten to ask permission from Lord Jagannatha before he went to attack King Sallwo. With this realization, the King returned to Puri and visited the temple of the Lord, crying over his defeat, asking why the Lord had let this happen. He spent the night in the temple, and with doors closed, before the night came to an end, the King heard a voice asking why he was so distraught over such a simple thing. The voice said to go gather his troupes again, and that we two brothers, Jagannatha and Balarama, would go along to fight on the King's behalf. As the news spread, many people, both old and young, joined the King's forces to fight with Their Lordships. However, as they went, the King was filled with some doubts whether Their Lordships were really going with him.
While the King and his army went onward, far ahead were two soldiers that rode on one black horse and one white horse. They stopped to quench Their thirst at a small village near Chilika Lake by buying some yogurt from a devotee named Manika.
She offered Them yogurt, but when she asked for payment, they said They had no money. Instead They gave her a jeweled ring and told her to give it to King Purusottama Dev, who would then give her payment.
After some time, the King caught up to the lady, who flagged him down to give him the ring and asked for payment for the soldiers' drink. The king was shocked to see the ratnamudrika ring of Lord Jagannatha and then regained his confidence that, indeed, Their Lordships had certainly come with him. In payment for the ring, the king gave her the whole village, which is still named Manikapatna.
After this the king and his troupes were victorious over King Sallwo, and he also took King Sallwo's daughter as well.
However, he did not marry her after the insult her father had given him. He instructed his minister to see that she get married to a qualified sweeper.
After one year, at the next Ratha-Yatra, the King again performed his sweeping ceremony. At that time, the king's minister announced that the king was the most qualified sweeper, since he swept for Lord Jagannatha, and that the princess, Padmavati, should marry him.
Then Maharaja Purusottama Dev married the princess and she later gave birth to a great devotee of Lord Caitanya, who became known as King Prataparudra. Anyway, at some point after this, the King of Puri discontinued sweeping the streets and now sweeps the carts.
still vadaabi ganesh is at puri jagannath mandir front gate people are worshipping him as a prisonar of jagannath.
as what i told this ganesh was brought by narshimma pallava from vaddabi.
as per the myth of puri vadabi ganesh was brought as a victory against kanchi after the war.
even 2nd pulikesi was controlling orissa some years,his contemoporary were harshavardhan and sasanka gouda.
There was a severe war for capturing palur port those days.
during suryavamsi period
till cavery was ruled by orissa king hamivera mahapatra brother of puroshtma dev for a period of 7 years
Beautiful account, Bala ! I was shocked when you concluded that the two were parants of chaitanya mahaprabhu !
There is something most interesting about puri jagannatha. Every 12 years or so, the wooden deities are demolished and new deities are installed in puri.
During this process, a specific person from a designated family locks himself in a room and transfers some holy contents from the present moorthies to the new images. He ties his eyes with cloth so that he does not see these contents. There was a very detailed article in week long back on these traditions - even the selection of tree out of which new images are made is a very elaborate process
By the way, puri is one rare example of main moorthies being made out of wood. Aagamas recognize wood as one of the possible substances out of which the deities can be constructed - But we do not have many examples. Thirukkovilur ulagalanthan is the only exception in south india.