The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.195
The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.195
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v2.c17.s1.195
According to Muhammadan Historians generally, these ‘considerations of self-interest’ did put a period to all further disasters to the sacred images, and they have been ever since allowed to enjoy in peace the homage of their teeming votaries; but in a private diary, entitled *Tabśirat-ul-Nāzirin*, and kept by a Bilgrāmi Sayyid named Sayyid Muhammad, son of Mir Alwal Jalāl, the late Mr. Blochmann found a passage which shows that that redoubtable iconoclast Aurangzib did not, for the sake of the tax, let Jagannātha alone. The passage, as communicated to me by Mr. Blochmann, runs thus: