[2] In 1476, Raja Baliar Singh divided the Khidisingi (Sorada) kingdom into four different estates due to early demise of his elder son.

The Ekadasi Rath Jatra (Cart festival) is the specialty and a different ritual compared to other Jagannath Mandirs around Odisha followed here.

[citation needed] It is said that Raja Jaganath Singh (1788-1830), while returning to his Palace after a hunt, saw a ray of light coming from inside a hut.

The Holy Man told the Raja that this was the place where Rani Chandama Devi had committed Sati.

The Raja was impressed and immediately ordered the construction of a Math over that place, and later descendants of the Dharakot Royal family have kept the flame burning ever since, with the task of keeping the flame alive being entrusted to the Head Priests of the Math.