The idol was recovered and, under the clearing of a bamboo tree, the first puja and sacrifice were performed, as it used to be done in Rameswaram. This place is called Banskata and the village is near Porahat. On the fourth day of the bright half of Jeshtha, the deity was installed in the temple at Porahat. This took place during the reign of King Achutya Singh I, the fourth in the dynasty, in the ninth year of the Gajapati Era.

Installed at Porahat, Paudi Devi or Ma Paudi became quickly the presiding deity of the area. Bonai and Keonjhar, two adjoining feudatory States of Orissa, soon came to be known as Paudio Bhuiya. The main festival in Sri Paudi Devi7s temple, followed ever since, right up to the present day, is the Sohala Puja or a pujaperformed with much ceremony continuously for sixteen days, beginning, from Jitua or Jimutavahana Ashtami, in Bhadra, up to the Mahashtami preceding the great Dusarah festival in Aswin.