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A devotee Salabega kneeling before Lord Jagannath's chariot on Puri's Grand Road during Rath Yatra.
Krishna Festival Stories
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Salabega Waits for Jagannath

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the Mughal camp at Cuttack, a soldier named Lalbeg lay wounded on the battlefield, his son beside him. The boy’s name was Salabega, and he was seventeen, and he had already seen more of war than any boy should. His mother had been a Hindu Brahmin before the years