The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.142

v2.c17.s1.142

Looking to the preternaturally long reigns, and the impudent way in which the names of well-known Northern Indian and Central Indian kings have been put under requisition to fiill up lacunæ in their pages, it is evident that the authors of the chronicles were by no means scrupulous about the authenticity of their materials. As already shown in the two preceding chapters, during the four centuries preceding the Christian era, Orissa generally and the district of Puri in particular were under the domination of the Buddhists; but they abstain altogether from any reference to them.