The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.210

v2.c17.s1.210

⁴⁶ The sacred enclosure had never before been surveyed and mapped, and my first business on reaching the sacred town was to prepare a plan. In this I was ably assisted by Babu Radhikaprasad Mukarji, then Assistant Engineer of Puri. We together measured the place with the aid of a compass and a surveying chain, and then I left my field-book with the Babu, who kindly offered to draw out a plan from it, for the use of this work. On my return to Calcutta, the Babu had occasion to go over the ground again, as he found some of my figures and directions doubtful, and then prepared a plan, a reduced copy of which is given in plate LI. The plan was sent to me two months after my return from Puri. Some months afterwards, finding that owing to my ill-health I could not bring out the plan soon, the Babu got the plan, along with an elevation of the temple, printed at Surveyor General's Office, and published. Reduced copies of this have since been published in Dr. Hunter's 'Orissa', and Mr. Fergusson's 'History of Indian and Eastern Architecture'.