Words and life- Juggernaut 2

If curious among you have already read etymology (etymology means study of origin of words) of juggernaut, excellent! If not here we go.

As already said in earlier posting, the word juggernaut is derived from Jagannath. Every year in month of Ashad Indian lunar month (sometime in June-July months) a huge religious procession is taken out with statues of Lord Krishna, his brother Balaram and their sister Subhadra placed in the huge chariots nearly 14 meters tall. The journey from Jagannath temple through the city of Puri moves very slowly as hundreds of thousands of devotees of Lord Jagannath congregate to worship and touch the chariots. In some earlier dictionaries on mythologies it was said that worshippers threw themselves in front of chariots to be sacrificed and thereby creating the image of unstoppable crushing. But I think it was and is an exaggeration perhaps based on the accidents and loss of life that may occur when so many people get together (if you have forgotten remember in September 2008 more than 150 people died in a stampede at a temple in Jodhpur, Rajasthan). One of the violent computer games is called juggernaut!