The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.190
The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.190
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v2.c17.s1.190
A century and a quarter after the time of Caitanya, Jagannātha was assailed by a more implacable enemy than he had ever before met with. It was not other than the dreaded pervert and iconoclast Kālāpāhāḍa, the sound of whose kettledrum made the ears and noses of Hindu images to drop down. He attacked Orissa during the reign of Mukunda Deva, who had invited the evil by extending his kingdom far to the north in Bengal and by building a landing-place on the Hugli at Triveni. The then Afghan king repelled the invasion, and carried fire and sword through the provinces of the assailant and soon overcame and killed him in battle near Yājapur.