The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.s2.51
The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.s2.51
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v2.c16.s2.51
] “*Chulakamasa paseta kothaja* (*yā*). The word *paseta* may be the Sanskrit *prasrita*, ‘the humble’, sc.—cell of Chulakama. Chūdākarma is the right of tonsure—from *cūḍā*, a single lock of hair left on the crown of the head when shaved: and some allusion to a similar purpose of this cave seems preserved in its modern name of Pawana gubha, ‘the cave of purification.’”[^30