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Ibid at a very cheap rate to the multitudes of pilgrims who 

 crowd here from all parts of India. Thefe are not permitted to 

 pay their refpeits to his godfliip till they have performed their 

 ablutions in the adjoining tank or refervoir, which is made of 

 different colored (tones. 



The legend of Jagrenaut is, that he was a foreigner, but Legend. 

 was found on the fhore by certain fifliermen in his prefent 

 form, that he addreffed himfelf to them, and informed them 

 that he came in pure charity to refide among them, and re- 

 quefted a proper lodging, which the reigning prince imme- 

 diately fupplied in its preient form. 



M. Sonnerat fays, that he is the fame with ^iicbena ; that Same with 



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able traveller gives two figures of him, in vol. i. tab. 46, 47 ; in 

 one he is reprefented dancing on the Calengam, or the Cobra 

 de Capelloj which he had killed in fight : in the other he is en- 

 tangled from head to foot in the fatal ferpent. M. Sonnerat 

 fujjpofes him to have been the fame with the Apollo of the with Apollo. 

 Greeks, who Hew the great ferpent Python. The Indians cele- 

 brate their deity with numbers of feflivals in memory of his 

 triumph over the Indian Python^ nor do they think their falva- 

 tion fecure without paying one pilgrimage to his Pagoda. That 

 able writer Sir William Jones., in his DilTertations on the 

 Gods of Greece, Italy-, and India, gives us the figure of Surya, 

 or the Indian Apollo, but does not mention him as the fame 

 with the great Jagrenaut or ^lichena. 



This temple is deftribed in the Ayeen Akberry, \\. 18. The 

 account merits the reader's attention. What a field of tafle and 

 fpeculation will not India be to a future Meavnas patronizing a 



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