The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.139

v2.c17.s1.139

**Buddhist period. Hindu account.** The second period of the history of Puri extends from the death of Buddha to the revival of Hinduism at Puri in the reign of Yayāti Keśarī, or well nigh a thousand years. For this period the account preserved in Hindu records is nearly as unsatisfactory as that for the first period. The Sanskrit authorities do not refer to this period at all ; as it was too recent for their claims to remote antiquity. The Temple Records in Uriya are our guide for it, and they are for this period not at all trustworthy. They were not taken in hand until more than a thousand years after the events they chronicle, and there is nothing to show that their authors had anything more than the loosest tradition for their guide.