The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.51.2

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but there are several temples, such as those of Bhāskareśvara and others, which date from long before the time of the Great Tower. Mere rivalry, apart from sectarian antagonism, has often given rise to counterparts of sacred shrines in distant parts of the country. A temple from some cause or other attains great repute; its presiding divinity becomes noted for working miracles; the flow of pilgrims to it is large; and the influence and emoluments of the officiating priests are enormous. A set of starving priests, or an individual of some sanctity, feels that if the same causes and circumstances which contributed to raise that temple to importance could be brought to bear upon another, that too would derive the same advantages, and a little fraud, some deception, and more delusion, soon realize the object sought, that of rising in wealth and importance; though the sanctity of the new competitor may not be always lasting. Failures are also not unfrequent. A notable instance of such failure is given in the *Skanda Purāṇa*. In the Kāśī Khaṇḍa of that work it is related that Vyāsa was, on one occasion, offended with the treatment he had [65] received at Benares, and *en revanche* determined to establish a new Benares or Kāśi of his own, opposite the old city, on the right bank of the Ganges. He set about the work in earnest ;