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shastras, they brought it to the Raja, who, filled with pious zeal, clothed 

 both it and the old images in rich robes, and conducted them in great state 

 fo PurL A new temple was then erected on the site of the old one, which 

 was found to be much dilapidated and overwhelmed with saud. The four 

 images were afterwards duly prepared and set up on their sinhasanor throne 

 with much pomp and solemnity on the 5th of Kakara (Cancer; the thirteenth 

 year of the Raja's reign, amidst the shouts and rejoicings of the multitude. 

 At the same time the necessary officers were appointed, feasts and festivals 

 established, sasans founded, and the whole country around Puri assigned 

 as endowments for the maintenance of the temple. On this memorable 

 occasion the Raja received by general acclamation the title of the second 

 Indradyumna. 



Towards the close of his reign, Raja Yayati Kesari began the buildings at 

 Bhuvaneswar, and died A. D. 520. 



The reigns assigned to his two successors, Siiraj Kesari and Ananta 

 Kesari, are probably of too long duration, being altogether ninety-seven 

 years, and are distinguished by nothing remarkable, excepting that the lat- 

 ter prince began the building of the great temple at Bhuvaneswar. 



He was succeeded A. D. 617 by Lalat Indra Kesari, a personage of high 

 repute in the legends of the Bhuvaneswar temple, inconsequence of his hav- 

 ing built or completed the great pagoda at that place sacred to Mahadeo 

 under the title of the Ling Raj Bhuvaneswara, in the year of Salivahana 

 580 and A. B. 657. He also founded there a large and populous city 

 containing seven su'is and forty-two streets which became the capital of the 

 Raj. 



An uninteresting series of thirty-two reigns of the Kesari Princes fol- 

 lows, extending through a period of 455 years, of the history of which little 

 is given excepting the characters of the Rajas and some absurd stories 



