The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.13

v2.c17.13

**Its antiquarian importance :—**Thus Bhuvaneśvara in the present day is a small, insignificant, uninviting place with no wealth, no commerce, and no manufactory, peopled by hungry priests, and desolate in every respect. It is, nevertheless, a most interesting field for the antiquarian, abounding as it does in architectural remains of the highest value, and connected as it is with historical associations of rare importance. To quote the language of the late Lord Canning used with reference to the plains round Delhi, it is “studded with ruins more thickly than even the Campagna of Rome”,³ and its history affords remarkable illustrations of the vicissitudes in the existence of an Indian town for five and twenty centuries.