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Tradition says
The Skanda Purana holds that merely seeing the chariots during Rath Yatra frees a person from the cycle of rebirth - which is why the road matters as much as either temple.
Historians say
The Grand Avenue, and the axis the whole city is organised around. The three chariots stand on it before the festival and are pulled along it by thousands of devotees. One to two million people gather here on the day.