IBMPLE OF JUGGERNAUT. 403 



Annual Expenses of the Idol Juggernaut, presented to the 

 English Government. 



[Extracted from the Official Account.] 



Rupees. . Sterling. 



1. Expenses attending the tnble of the idol 36, 115or 4,514 



2. Ditfoof his dress or wearing apparel . 2,712 339 



3. Ditto of the wages of his servants . . 10,057 1,259 



4. Ditto of contingent expenses at the dif- 



ferent seasons of pilgrimage ... 



5. Ditto of hi \' phants and horses . . 



6. Ditto of his rutt or annual state carriage 



Rupees 60,616 j8702 



'* In item third, ' wages of his servants,' are included the 

 was* 1 ? of tht courtesans, who are kept for the service of the temple. 



" Item sixtn. What is h^re called in the official account * the 

 state carriage,' is the same as the car or tower. Mr. Hunter in. 

 for-.ned me that the three c state carriages' were decorated this year 

 (in June IhOj) with upwards of 200/. sterling worth of English 

 broad cloth. 



*' Of the rites celebrated in the interior of Juggernaut, called the 

 Daily Service, I can say nothing of my own knowledge, not having 

 been within the temp' *." 



Dr. Buchanan's Christian Researches in India. 



* "At the Temple of Juggernaut, the English government levy a tax on pil- 

 grims as a source of revenue. The first law, enacted by the Bengal gov- rnment 

 for this purpose, was entitled >' A regulation for levying a lax from pilgrims 

 resorting to the Temple of Juggernaut, and for toe superimendauce of and ma- 

 nagement of the Temple. Passed 3d of April, 18 "6." Another regulation 

 wa passed in Bengal, in April, 1809, rc-srinding so much of the former as re- 

 Jated to :h- " interior maoagen.i ,it and eomroul" of the Temple ; but sancti- 

 oning the levying the tax from pilgrims for admission (o the temple ; allotting 

 a sum toward the expenses of the idol; and appointing an officer of govern- 

 ment to collect the tax. Of this second regulation, the author received no in- 

 timation until the third edition of his work was put to prs. In the former 

 editions, it was stated that the Temple was under the immediate management 

 and controul of (he English government ; which he is now happy to find was 

 not the fact at the time. Whether the account of the new regulation hid 



