The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.121

v2.c17.s1.121

**Its boundary.** The town is bounded on the south by the sea; on the west by Parganna Chaubiskud; and on the north and east, by Parganna Rāhang. The line of demarcation on the north side is best indicated by the Motiyā Nadī *alias* Madhupur River. The area enclosed by these boundaries is a little under five miles, with an average breadth of a mile and a half. About one half of the breadth is, however, represented by the sandy shore on which stands the civil station, and which in official records is known under the name of Parganna Oldhār, and popularly as Bālikhaṇḍ or ‘the sand portion.’ The other half forms the town proper, and it does not include much more than six furlongs in its breadth, except towards the western side, where the width of the shore has been largely inhabited and included in the town. According to Sanskrit writers the area of the town is five *krośa* from the temple of Lokanātha on the west to that of Vilveśvara on the east, and from the sea to the Motiyā Nadī; but as two *krośas* out of the five, have been, it is said, engulphed by the sea, the remainder very closely represents the present extent.