Are these claims about Puri Jagannath Temple really true?

Question

Now I am interested to visit Lord Jagannath temple in Puri after reading following facts about it (source). Are these claims true?

1. The flag always flaps in a direction opposite to the direction in which the wind is blowing.

2. Gaze from any place in Puri, and you will always find the Sudarshan Charka (charka at the top of the temple) always facing you.

3. Normally during day-time, the wind blows from the sea to the land and in the evening, the opposite happens. But in Puri, the opposite happens.

4. Birds or planes do not fly above the temple.

5. The shadow of the main dome is invisible at any time of day.

6. The quantity of cooked food inside the temple remains same the entire year. And the same prasadam can feed whatever be the number of devotees - a few thousand people or 20 lakh people. It never gets wasted.

7. In the temple kitchen, seven pots are kept on top of each other and cooked on firewood. In this process, the contents in the top pot get cooked first, lastly, the bottommost one!

8. On entering from Singhadwara, as one takes the first step inside the Temple, you can’t hear any sound produced by the ocean. But when you cross the same step outside the Temple, you can hear it.

Answer 1

• 2) False

  

• 4) Birds no; but planes WILL fly

  Bhubaneswar, July 16: The director-general of civil aviation has turned down a proposal to make no-flying zone over the Sri Jagannath Temple in Puri.

  “The ministry of civil aviation has taken a policy decision that no-flying zones are not to be created as they affect the safety and efficiency of flight operations,”

• 5) The shadow of the main dome always falls on the building itself and that's why invisible at any time

  

• 7) True, I've seen it
• 8) true