Week-long traditional Kharchi festival – offering prayer to 14 Gods and Goddess with religious fervour began on Sunday in presence of thousands of devotees from across the country at Khayerpur, the eastern outskirt of the city.

Centuries-old ‘Kharchi Puja’ begins in Tripura.

Kharchi Puja is a Hindu festival from Tripura, India. Performed in Agartala in July or August, the festival involves the worship of the fourteen gods forming the dynasty deity of the Tripuri people.

Kharchi Puja is one of the most popular festivals in Tripura. It’s a week-long royal Puja which falls in the month of July on the eighth day of the new moon.

This festival is celebrated at Agartala (Puran Agartala) in the temple premises of Fourteen gods.