The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.3

v2.c17.3

Bhuvaneśvara is an inland out-of-the-way town on the right side of the Puri road, at a distance of about twenty miles from Cuttack. According to the district register it is included within the boundary of Killā Khurdā, Pargunnah Daṇḍimal, and is known under the name of Mauzā Gosāgara.¹ Its present boundary may be roughly described to extend from the temple of Rāmeśvara to a little to the west of that of Bhuvaneśvara on the west; from the latter to the temple of Kapileśvara on the south; from the last to the temple of Bhāskareśvara on the east; and from the last to Rāmeśvara on the north. This forms an irregular rhomboid of a little under a mile and a half a side. Its area is reckoned at 2790 *māns*,² 9 *guṇṭhs* and 14 *biśvās*=1253 acres, 1 rood and 22 poles, or nearly two miles and a half. The greater part of this area is covered by arid plains of laterite, waste lands interspersed with patches of paddy-fields, ruins of old buildings, and deserted temples. Of waste land the area is 405 acres and 36 poles, or nearly one-third of the total. The balance comprises 36 a. 3 r. 12 p. of Devottra belonging to Kapileśvara, 9 a. 3 r. to Anantavāsudeva, 4-3 to Paradāreśvara, 3-2-37 to Uttareśvara, 6-2-37 to Gopālinī, and the rest 1196 acres to Bhuvaneśvara.