The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.144

v2.c17.144

**Sahasra lingam Tank :—**Outside the temple enclosure, nearly in front of the eastern gateway, there is a small garden with a tank in the centre. This tank is called the *Sahasra liṅgam sara* or tank of a thousand liṅgams, and the name is due to the circumstance of there being a hundred and eight small temples ranged round the tank. The temples are of small size, each about 6 feet in height, and of evidently modern make. Each has in its centre a small liṅgam, left uncared for and unworshipped. The area around these temples serves as a kitchen garden for the Great Tower, and the tank supplies the water necessary for all the ordinary purposes of the divinity in the Tower. There are some gravelled foot-paths round and about the tank, and a goodly number of plants, to supply the deity requirements of flowers for the Lord of the Universe. The place is not looked upon as one of any sanctity, and its name does not occur in the *Ekāmra Candrikā* which gives the names of all the sacred spots in Bhuvaneśvara which a pious pilgrim is bound to visit The history of the place does not probably extend to an earlier date than the 16th century.