The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.141

v2.c17.s1.141

323 to a set of Yavanas who came by the way of the sea, and under the leadership of one Raktabāhu or Red-Arm. Unable to cope with his enemies he fled from Puri, taking the four sacred images with him, and for the sake of security, buried them under the earth, planting a banian tree over them. From this time to the close of the third quarter of the 5th Century, the country remained under the Yavanas, and the sacred images lay under the earth. Yayāti Keśarī came to Orissa in 474, and first established himself at Yāyapur, and thence, gradually pushing on, wrested the whole country from the foreigners.