The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.32.2

v2.c17.32.2

This is obviously a counterpart of the practice observed at Benares where no pilgrim can fulfil all his religious obligations without traversing the boundary of the city or performing what is there called *pañcakoṣi yātrā* or “five *koṣ* pilgrimage,” i.e., circumambulating the boundary road.¹⁶ And this is borne out by the fact that *Ekāmra Purāṇa* is satisfied with a circuit formed by a radius of one mile round the Great Tower or the inner circle which is nowhere beyond [61] five *koṣ* or ten miles from the temple of Viśveśvara. This shows that the boundary described is no fiction, and the road, or foot-path,—for in some places there is no distinct road now perceptible,—is the landmark of the ancient boundary. The area, however, is too large for any ancient city proper, and I am disposed to believe that it includes what formerly constituted a considerable portion of its suburbs. Anyhow this much is certain that Dhauli at one time was a part of the suburbs of Bhuvaneśvara. Now, the low hill at Dhauli, as already stated (ante p.