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The date of the Jagannettha Temple in Puri , Orissa .—By Babu Monmohan 
CflAKRAVARTl, M.A., B.L., Deputy Magistrate , Gaya, Bengal. 
[Read August, 1898.] 
The great temple of Jagannatha at Pari is widely known in India; 
bat nothing definite is known about the time of its erection. Touching 
this point I adduce below some arguments based on recently discovered 
inscriptions. 
The Gaggavampa copper-plates of Orissa contain the following 
important passage 1 :— 
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htok ssqfcf: ^"t nm 5ir%' 
«if tnftr xgata 'gkTfaj^rex^ i 
pihwi sriftfrer?ra?iT*ri>xnT- 
fwjjt iftiTO wteiNm n 
Translation:— 
“ What king can be named that could erect a temple to such a 
god as Purusottama, whose feet are the earth, whose navel the entire 
sky, whose ears the cardinal points, whose eyes the sun and moon, and 
whose head that heaven (above) ? This task which had been hitherto 
neglected by previous kings, was fulfilled by Gagg§ 9 vara. 
“ The ocean is the birth-place of Laksmi, so thinking in his father- 
in-law’s house (the ocean) Visnu lodged with some shame, though he 
l Journal, Asiatic Society Bengal, Vol. LXIV, (1895), p. 139; Journal, Vol. 
BXV, (1896), p. 240. This pantheistic idea and even the very similes of the text 
may bo traced as far back as Ilgveda ^X, 90, 13-4). 
