The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.97

v2.c17.97

[Figure:] (See fig. 151, Plate XXXIV). Over the last is a massive iron trident with one straight and two curved prongs as shown in the woodcut on the margin, and not, as is ordinarily the case, with three straight prongs. It has now only two prongs, one of the side ones having been knocked off, I was told, by lighting. To the trident is attached a large flag-staff; and the flag on it, a triangular piece of yellow calico, is renewed whenever a pious pilgrim can be induced to defray the cost of a new one.