The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.178.4

v2.c17.s1.178.4

During that time he erected a temple to Nārāyaṇa under the name of Ālālanāthā at a distance of eight miles from Puri and then took in hand the great temple of Jagannātha ; but he made no great progress in the work. Anaṅgabhīma was his brother and to him therefore devolved the task. He took for his model the Great Tower of Bhuvaneśvara and in imitation of that monument, but at the same time to eclipse its grandeur, produced its counterpart. An inscription³² gives the date at Śaka 1119, i.e. A. C. 1197, and distinctly states that the temple was *caused to be erected* (*kārayāmāsa*) *and not restored* by Anaṅgabhīma Deva. There are frequent references too in works which cannot be later than the 9th or 10th century to the temple of Puri as an important place of pilgrimage and it is impossible to believe that the temple was then buried in sand entirely lost sight of. The temple existed and was visited by large numbers ; but it enjoyed not much royal favour during the supremacy of the Keśarī line and could not cope with the glory of the Śivite revival at Bhuvaneśvara. Its ascendancy therefore dates after the decline of Bhuvaneśvara when a new dynasty gave impulse to a different but by no means an antagonistic form of faith.