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n. A Hindu pilgrimage.
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Yatra is Deepti Bhatnagar's religious travel guide television show, which focuses on a spiritual journey around the Indian temples on STAR Plus. The series premiered on 7 July 2002, and aired Sunday Mornings. The word 'Yatra' in Hindi language means travel, usually travel to spiritual places.
Yatra ( Devanagari: यात्रा, English: Journey) is a 2007 Indian Hindi drama film directed by Goutam Ghose, the movie featured Rekha, Nana Patekar and Deepti Naval.
( Sanskrit: यात्रा, 'journey', 'procession'), in Hinduism and other Indian religions, generally means pilgrimage to holy places such as confluences of sacred rivers, places associated with Hindu epics such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana, and other sacred pilgrimage sites. Tīrtha-yātrā refers to a pilgrimage to a holy site, and is generally undertaken in groups. One who goes on a yatra is known as a yatri. As per Vedic Hindu Dharma shastras a Yatri is supposed to do Yatra barefoot. He/she should travel without umbrellas,vehicles etc., to get the benefit of the Yatra. At present these rules are not followed by many pilgrims.
Yatra is pilgrimage or procession in Hinduism.
Yatra may refer to:
- Yadaya (yātra), a Burmese magical ritual used to avert misfortune
- Yatra (film), a 2007 Hindi movie directed by Gautam Ghose
- Jatra (Bengal), folk theatre of Bengal
- Yatra (TV series), Hindu religious travel guide television show, by Deepti Bhatnagar
- Yatra (album), an 1994 album by Indian American saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa
- Yatra (company), travel website
- Yatra, Navahrudak District, a village Navahrudak District, Belarus
Yatra.com is an Indian online travel agency and a travel search engine based in Gurgaon, Haryana, founded by Dhruv Shringi, Manish Amin and Sabina Chopra in August 2006.
In April 2012, it was the second largest online travel website in India, with 30 per cent share of the market for all online travel-related transactions., it also launched a "holiday-cum-shopping card" with State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest bank.
Yatra (1986) was travel based a TV series on Himsagar Express, the longest running train of Indian Railways, directed by Shyam Benegal
Music for the series was composed by Vanraj Bhatia, camera work by Jehangir Chowdhury.
This series was shot almost entirely on train - Himsagar Express (the longest-running train at that time from Kanyakumari to Jammu Tawi), and the Tripura Express (Jaisalmer to Guwahati), the 15-part series was a collage of picture postcards from unsullied corners of India.
The show aired on Doordarshan and had an ensemble cast of Om Puri, Mohan Gokhale, Ila Arun, Neena Gupta, Raghubir Yadav and others
Usage examples of "yatra".
Voorhees' contract specified that he had to get the temple and its statuary to Orissa within seventeen days, before the local celebration of Rath Yatra, when the god's effigy was scheduled to be transported in solemn procession from the temple to a summer dwelling.