Puri sevaks and pandas
Tirtha purohit seat, Tirtha purohits
Puri, Odisha
About 8,000 sevaks in about 1,200 families served the Jagannath temple in 2015. How their client registers are indexed is not documented.
How a family belongs
Each panda lineage holds hereditary rights over families from particular areas. A family's panda is found by its ancestral village, district and caste, not by gotra or surname.
What it records
Offline.
Note
- Its records are a priest family's private property.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked November 2026. Heads, courts and websites change, so entries are checked again every year.
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