The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.108

v2.c17.s1.108

**Kapilesvara Road**—The road in front of the Great Tower joints the Baḍāḍaṇḍ to the north, and extends about a mile towards the south, as far as the village of Kapileśvara. At one time it was lined on both sides by a large number of temples,—some of them of great size and elaborate workmanship ;—but they are now all desecrated, forsaken, and more or less in ruins,—overgrown with jungle, and the haunts of vermin and wild beasts During the short time I had at my disposal I could not clear them of their surroundings to examine them in detail; I must, therefore, leave them unnoticed. They had been all built of grey sandstone or basalt, massively but plainly, and must have belonged to an earlier age than the Great Tower. Some of them had open, pillared chaultries before them ; and some one-storeyed, and others two-storeyed, private dwellings around them. The ruins of stone houses indicate that, though now entirely forsaken, this part of the town was formerly the most thickly peopled, and the abode of the higher classes of the community.