Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c15.41

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c15.41

Due to several factors, the chief amongst them being the change of the main course of the Gaṅgā through the Padmā as well as the impotence of the descendants of the valiant Vaṅgas of old as guardians of the sacred place, the all-India importance of the Gaṅgāsāgara *tīrtha* gradually waned and its enviable position as the greatest *tīrtha* in Eastern India was untimately usurped by the medieval Purī *tīrtha* in Orissa. As a local *tīrtha*, however, it preserved its popularity in Eastern India throughout the medieval period in spite of the depredations of

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