452 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1913. 
The idol,’’ says Odoric, ‘is as bi as St. Christopher is 
commonly represented by the painters, and it is entirely of 
ted hr 
round its neck it hath a collar of gems of immense value. And 
the church of this idol is also of pure gold, roof (and walls) and 
I, p. 81. 
less remote from our own days, who had had the advantage of 
coming closer to Puri. The point to be remembered is that in 
Odoric. Is it not rather tradition reasserting itself about 400 
years later? Biron’s informers had not seen the idol of Puri, 
described it to Odoric. Yet, in bot es, itis c ared to 
the giant St Christopher, who according to the Légende dorée de 
oragine (Paris edn. 1843 | Pp. 179) was ‘* terrible in appear- 
ance, and twelve cubits hia Wile 
___ I must quote still another allusion to diamonds in Jagan- 
nath’s eyes. I take it from “An account of the Countries, 
