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1871.] Antiquities of Jajpur in Or'isd. 
An annual fair is held on the Baitarani in the month of Chaitra 
on the Baruni day, when a large number of men and women con¬ 
gregate to bathe. The articles brought to the fair consist of brass 
utensils, stone plates, and trinkets. 
There are 2100 houses in Jajpur, and 11,000 inhabitants, as 
ascertained by the latest census. 
The only inscription that I found at Jajpur is over a figure of 
Hanuman worshipped as one of the Gramya Devatas ; it is copied 
below. 
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Note by the Editor. —The remark made by Babu Cb. S. Banurji re¬ 
garding the spirits that still hover over the Afghan battlefield near Jajpur 
(p. 152), may be compared with the following remark by the historian Ba- 
daoni regarding the battlefield of Panlpat (A. D., 1525). He says (I., 335)— 
“ Even now (in 1595), when two generations have passed away since that 
bloody day, people bear at night voices coming from the battlefield, and 
cries, “ Give,” “ take,” “ kill,” “ strike ;” and several years ago, in 1588, when, 
on my journey from Labor to Fathpur Sikri, I bad occasion to pass over 
the field, I beard the very voices with my own ears, and my companions 
fancied that an army was rushing onwards. We committed ourselves to 
God, and passed on,” 
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