1898.] 
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M. Chakravarti— Jagannatha Temple in Puri. 
got full adoration. Thus ashamed, the god Purusbttama was glad to 
get this new house; and Laksmi, too, gladly preferred living in her 
husband’s new house to living in her father’s house.” 
This passage shows that— 
(1) a great temple was erected in Orissa dedicated to Purusottama, 
(2) that it was erected by order of Gagge^vara alias CSdagaqga, and 
(3) that it was erected on or near the sea-coast. 
Purusottama is another name of Jagannatha, whose Ksettra and 
Mahatmya are still called Purus5ttama-Ksettra and Purusottama-Mahat- 
mya. The description thus leaves no doubt that the temple erected by 
Codagngga can be no other than the present temple of Jagannatha. 
Codagaqga, however, ruled long, for nearly seventy years. His 
anointment (abhiseka) took place formally in 999 ^!aka (17th February, 
1078 A.D.). But he is believed to have practically ruled from two years 
back, 997 Caka, so far as the numerous inscriptions quoted in Dr. 
Hultzsch’s Epigrapliical Report of 1895-96 (particularly those of Mu- 
khaliijgam) can be relied on. Similarly, if the date of Vajrahasta’s acces¬ 
sion be taken as960£aka, thenCodaga.gga, his grandson, came to the throne 
in 997£'aka (960 + 29 + 8), 2 or 1075-6 A.D. Orissa has been specifically 
described in the inscriptions to have been conquered by Cddagaqga. 3 
Consequently the temple of Jagannatha must have been begun to be 
constructed several years after his conquest. When the Orissan conquest 
took place is not known, but at least 8 or 10 years might be reasonably 
assumed to have elapsed before it was taken possession of. We thus 
arrive at the anterior limit of 1085 A.D., as the date before which the 
temple of Jagannatha could not have been built by Codagaqga. 
The posterior limit can be arrived at only indirectly. In the 
Govindapura inscription of Gaya edited by Prof. Kiel horn, it is said— 
+J# facTcTR 
+1^ firfsw ref® firat ii 4 
Translation:— 
“ Pleasing with his good fortune and youth, and a person of 
good renown, Manoratlia went to the sacred Purusottama, and on the 
2 Epigraphia Indica, Vol. IV, p. 190; Professor Kielhorn has thrown doubts on 
the English equivalent arrived at (see his note on the covering page 3, Yol. 1Y, 
Pt- V). 
S Ind. Ant., Yol. XYIII, p. 169; J. A. S. B., Yol. LXLY, p. 130. 
4 Ep. Ind., Vol. II, p. 334; for translation see p. 339. 
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