This small temple with red-granite roof is on Cakra Tirtha road, across the street from Z hotel, 2 mins from Cakra Tirtha temple. This temple is dedicated to a tall black stone Deity of Hanuman, now covered in red sindhur, who serves Lord Jagannatha by protecting the holy dhama. Word bedi means chain.
Puffed Rice Can’t Match Ladoos: Puri residents of yore complained to Lord Jagannatha that cyclone whipped sea often washed away the town. Lord Jagannatha posted Hanuman here to protect Puri and prevent future inundations. The faithful were daily offering some puffed rice and jaggery to Hanuman but he longed for laddoos. One day Hanuman leaped to Ayodhya to see his beloved Lord Rama and received some delicious laddoo maha-prasadam. Angry seas took advantage of Hanuman’s absence and once again flooded the town of Puri. When Hanuman returned, Lord Jagannatha promised to daily give him laddoos. But just to make sure that this mischievous monkey would not leap away again, Lord Jagannatha bound Hanuman’s leg with a heavy steel ball and chain. Henceforth, Hanumanji was called Bedi Hanuman.
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