The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.29

v2.c17.29

**Boundary after the time of Yajati, and ancient name and site:—**According to the *Kapila Saṃhitā*, quoted in the *Ekāmra-candrākā*, Bhuvaneśvarā or, as it is there named, Ekāmra Kānana, the “mango forest,” within a century or two of the reign of Lalāṭendra, comprised a circular area extending from Khaṇḍagiri on the west to the temple of Kuṇḍaleśvara near the village of Taṅkapāni near the Puri road, and from that to Balahā or Vārāhī Devī close by the village of [60] Miyāpalli on the north, to that of Vahiraṅgeśvara on the Dhauli hill to the south, including altogether an area of three *yojanas* or 12 miles, which now bears on it no less than forty-five different villages¹⁴ as shown in the diagram in Fig. 1. The relative distances shown in the diagram are merely approximate, the plan being the work of a paṇḍit, and not of a surveyor. The inner circle shows the land elect of the presiding divinity of the place, and the outer the extreme boundary of the sacred city, or the circuit which a pilgrim has to go over in his circumambulation. In reality the boundary in either case is anything but an exact circle.