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Identifier: archaeologicalsu01nage (find matches)
Title: The archaeological survey of Mayurabhanja
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nagendra-Natha Vasu
Subjects: Cults Buddha and Buddhism
Publisher: (Calcutta Printed by U.N. Bhattacharyya at the Hare Press)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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most of them have been cleared andthe land has been converted into paddy-fields.The existence of these ruins proves that theplace was once thickly populated. CANTHILO. One mile from Betnati station and sevenmiles from Badasai is tlie ancient village Caiitliilo.This village shews heaps of ruins over an areaof about 100 X 50 cubits. These ruins are ofan old fort that had on the eastern andwestern sides two big tanks which have now beenpartly silted up. The village which was onceso important as to be fortified, possessed itsgods and goddesses with picturesque temples.In front of the ruins of the fort, stone slabsin which artistic figures appear in bas-reliefwith other fine carvings, have been pre-served in a hut. These slabs indicate theexistence at one time of beautiful temples inthe place. Images of Dvara-Vasini, Nrsiriiha,Krsna and other deities, broken by the recklesshands of the iconoclasts and bearing marks ofravages made by time, lie huddled together inthe hut. > m 1-3 o ao oc
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IVIANTRI. Mantri is situated G miles to the south-eastof Badasal and 23 from Baripada. The place iswell known throughout Utkala for the temple ofits presiding deity Kakharua Vaidyanatha. Thepeople here were required to pay three Manas ofpaddy to the deity, a j)ractice not yet altogethergiven up. The name Manatraya or Manatri (lit.three Manas) is said to have originated in this way. Kakharua Vaidyanatha is believed to possessimmense power. He is known as Jagrata Devata( a living Deit)). He readil) grants all j)rayers.Hundreds of people come here from distant partsof the country to present offerings to the deity.Daring Civa-ratri, Jatras are held here in honourof this god. Nearl.y hfty to sixty thousand i^il-grims assemble to join in this festival and giveofferings to the temple. A^aidyanatha here occupiesthe same place as Tarake^vara in Bengal. Tradition says that a Raja of the Soma-vaiii^a Avas attacked with white leprosy,his whole body becoming white likeKakharu ( pumptkin or gourd )

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