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Beyond this, nearly due south, is the region of pilgrimage beloved of Vishnu, known to every hamlet throughout India, and to every civilised nation on earth, as the abode of Jaganndth, the Lord of the World.* * Kapila Sanhiti. Stirling's Account of Orissa Proper, Asiatic Re- searches, vol. XV. p. 1 66. * Yamdlaye mahdghore taptd Baitaranf nadf. * Vijayf, or Pdrvati Kshetra. ' Arka, or Padma Kshetra. * Hara Kshetra. » Vishnu, or Punishottama Kshetra. Digitized by VjOOQ IC THE HOLY CITY. %i There... is not a Fiscal Division in Orissa without its community of cenobites, scarcely a village without fertile abbey lands, and not a single ancient family which has not devoted its best acres to the gods. Hundreds of monasteries dot the province, and enjoy an aggregate rent-roll of ;^50,ooo a year.^^ Every town is filled with temples, and every hamlet has its shrine. This lavish devotion extends into the hill-country. In going up the Mahdnadl, I noticed that each rocky islet, or wooded crag that rose from its banks, was crowned, not, as upon the Rhine, by the castle of a noble, but by a temple to some god.
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