The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c6.76

v1.c6.76

The *Ekāmra Candrikā* is a guide to pilgrims, containing directions for visiting the temples and court-yards, the holy pools and holier waters, of Bhuvaneśvara, and recounting the religious advantages to be derived by bathing, prostrating, recounting, performing *śrāddha*, and giving alms to the poor, in those places. It quotes largely from the *Kapila Saṃhitā*, the *Ekāmra Purāṇa*, the *Rāmāyaṇa*, the *Mahābhārata*, and the *Mahā Purāṇas* generally; but it contains very little of legends and anecdotes, and is singularly devoid of interest. Almost the same prostrations, the same *mantras*, and the same mummeries, have to be gone through everywhere, and chapter after chapter repeats the same directions with scarcely any difference of language.