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and a Vaishnava by family religion, ... had the freest access 
to the innermost sanctuaries, and to the most secret of 
scriptures,’’ | says nothing of diamonds in his description of 
the images of Balabhadra, Jagannatha and Subhadra.* His 
silence is the more significant as he was the first to quote the 
text of the Tabcirat-wl-Nazirin. Reliable information concern- 
ing the secrets of the Piri sanctum it is hard to obtain. I 
believe that many of the natives, Bengalis and Oriyas alike, 
are convinced that the statues of Piri have diamond eyes; yet, 
Babis Gobinda Lal Banerjee and Monmohan Chakravarti 
Mitra does not mention. Assuming the information of my 
correspondents to be correct, one might ask oneself whether 
the story of the theft of one of the eyes did not originate from 
a desire on the part of the people to explain the single “‘eye’”’ 
in the forehead. This, however, is not very likely. On the 
