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faned the temple was the same who had sold Jagannath’s eye 
to France, 7.e., Governor Pitt 2 
The story of a theft at J agannath is a great deal older. 
Father Guy Tachard, S.J., wrote from Chandernagar, 18th 
January 1711:! ‘I should have liked to instruct myself person- 
against the French. It is a constant rumour in the country 
that a Frenchman, disguised as a Pandaron,® entered. about 
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thirty years ago, into the temple, that he remained in hiding 
It could have been no longer a secret, however, that Pitt had 
some of the chief accusations levelled against Pitt. How then 
does he speak of a ruby, if not because nobody had yet thought 
of associating Pitt’s name with the theft supposed to have been 
committed at Jagannath ? 
~ Manucci has a similar story. More dramatic and still more 
improbable, it attributes the theft of both eyes to a onan 
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Hindiis began to worship on account of his long arms which 
reached below his knees, he proceeds :— 
‘“‘ There was another similar case when a long-armed 
Portuguese went to stay at Jagarnath, adjoining Bengal, where 
there is a very large and ancient temple, greatly renowned in 
i m a 
India, and very wealthy. On this man’s i 
priests and the people of the town heard of him. They all came 
oO m and conducted him straight to the temple with 



1 Cf. tbid., Vol. XII, 1781, page 45. : 
a@ndara (Satskpt): one clothed in pale or yellowish 
white, the garb of Indian Jogis. ; : 
8 Cf. The Diary of W. Hedges, I11, pages exvi, cxxxi. 
