The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.178.1

v2.c17.s1.178.1

**Anangabhima Deva.** The fane, however, could not last for ever; in course of time it mouldered and decayed, and when the Śivite dynasty of the Keśarīs had passed away, and a new one, that of the Gaṅgāvaṁśīs with a strong Vaiṣṇavite leaning came to power, the necessity was felt for thoroughly repairing or renewing it. According to the *History of Puri* by Braja Kishore Ghose, ‘The temple was entirely covered with sand, in which it remained buried for a long time. This circumstance was brought to the notice of Rājā Anaṅgabhīma Deva, who immediately set out to discover it, and happened to find the spot where it had sunk; he then removed the sand, and the temple was restored in A.D. 1198’²⁹. This is a second edition of the incident alluded to in the history of Yayāti. Mr. Stirling does not refer to this burial in sand and subsequent exhumation of the temple. After adverting to the Rājā’s having incurred the guilt of killing a Brahman, to motives of superstition prompting him to construct numerous temples as an expiation for his offence and to the various public works he completed, he says, the Rājā ‘filled the whole Kṣetra of Jagannātha with sacred edifices, and the great temple was erected by his orders under the superintendence of Paramahaṁśa Bājapeyi, at an expense of about thirty to forty lacs. The date of its completion was A. D. 1196.