The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.354

v2.c17.s1.354

When men are dying such a place would be the most acceptable for an easy transition to the region they long all their life through to attain, and hence it has been selected as the cremation and burying-ground for the dead of the town. The place is not adapted for any masonry building, so there is none to mark its site, except a dilapidated English monument over the grave of Mr. Bushby, once Collector of Puri. On the full-moon of Kārtika people come here in great numbers to bathe and the concourse is said to number at times from thirty to forty thousand persons. Close by this place is a small temple dedicated to Kuvera, the god of wealth.