AKSHARA BRAHMA FORM OF, LORD JAGANNATH, THE MOST BELOVED DEITY OF THE SABARAS.
(Established on 18th June 1936)
S.p mangai gives the following statements. Regarding the origin of the script.
The savara people used to worship 'Daru-Brahma' (wooden image of God) but when lalita(The savara princes) falling in love with a Brahman revealed to him the secrets of the worship, The Brahman won over the Lord. The lord vanished and no more responded to the prayers of the savara people. Then the savara said, 'wonderfull'. You don't. Listen to me, you don't respond to me.
But you listen to the Brahmin, who is an out sider.Alright,i say, from today I will offer you only blood and liquor. When you come back again to us and teach us to be wise and good, we will worship you then only with due sanctity. 'the savara people took a resolution like that and since then they were sacrificing cocks. Goats, buffaloes and human beings too at the rituals. They worship, pay obeisance, and then pour down blood and liquor on the deity's head. However. After many days, at the end of the Age of kali, the lord came back and said, 'Now I have come to you, not as Duru-Brahma, but as' Akshara-Brahma'(Alphabetic image of God). You worship me in this form. I will be visible on the matter bnom vijnan 'hills'. The savara then went and saw. The twenty four letters appeared in his vision. Theme a shrine was built on that site and the worship of the 'Akshara-Brahma' commenced from that day"
Mangei, thus, spiritualises his invention of a sora script and sets up a new religious order which is designated as 'Matter Bnom Dmri' - the religion that opens the eyes and makes people good and wise. His script symbolizing the Akshara-Bramha is enshrined on a hill near marichiguda, about 20 kms.far from the nearest town of Gunupur. The image is in the shape of 'om' in Oriya character having the 24 letters, 9 numerals and a crest inscribed on it. During the past fourty years mangei has proselytize a good number of his tribesmen and has established sub-centres all over the sora speaking tract in make people literate in the script. Particularly, in the padampur-Gunupur; the area centering around marichiguda-Dumbasara villeges, the literacy has spread to a recognizable extent and the script is, in fact, being used in intra-community communication and literary activities.
