Nabakalebara  Nabakalebara () is a symbolic recreation of the wooden forms of three Hindu deities (Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra, and Sudarshana) at Jagannath Temple, Puri. In the cult of Jagannath, the ritual is performed during the eighth, 12th, or 19th year after the previous Nabakalebara. Nabakalebara is an important festival in the Odia Hindu calender, observed in the Jagannath Temple, Puri. It marks the demise and rebirth of lord Jagannath at Puri. The event involves installation of new images in the Jagannath temple and burial of the old ones in the temple premises at Koili Baikuntha. "Nabakalebara" is a combination of two Odia words: "naba" (new) and "kalebara" (body), translated as "the change of one's physical form." The year of Nabakalebara is when the full moon occurs twice during the month of Ashadha. Every three years in the Hindu calendar, a lunar month is excluded from the calculation to maintain a balance between lunar and solar years. This period is called "Adhikmasa" or "Malamasa". A year with an extra month ("अधिकमास or मलमास or पुरुषोत्तममास )"is considered auspicious for the ceremony, which typically occurs every twelve to nineteen years. The three deities undergo the process of Nabakalebara in the year in which the "adhikmasa" falls. The deities are carved from a special type of neem wood, known as "daru bramha". Preparations for the ceremony begin in the month of Chaitra. The most recent ceremony was in 2015, 19 years after the 1996 ceremony. Over three million devotees were expected to visit the temple during the Nabakalebara 2015. "Jirna bera parityaga" () means "the leaving of the old deity and the consecration of the new". As a person puts on new garments and gives up the old, the soul accepts new material bodies and gives up old, useless ones. According to temple rituals, the deities are changed. Made from the neem tree, musk, sandalwood and other combinations, they undergo a change before the "adhika ashadha" ends.