The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.111

v2.c17.s1.111

The total number of temples in the town of Bhuvaneśvara was, at one time, in the hyperbolic language of the *Ekāmra Purāṇa*, a hundred thousand, and of *liṅgams*, ten millions. A hundredth part of those numbers, would perhaps, however, be nearer the truth. At present even one half of my hypothetical numbers is not to be found. At a rough estimate about three hundred are now in *situ*. The names even of these, however, are not to be met with in the local legends. The *Ekāmra Candrikā* and the *Svarṇādri-mahodadhi*, which supply itineraries according to which the pilgrim should visit the different temples, notice the principal temples under eight groups, and then add a ninth head to include the outlying and distant temples which are not situated in groups, and the following names occur in them: