. The archaeological survey of Mayurabhanja. as she is( Plato Xo. 37 ). bank o[ a large tank in Badasai is asmall figure popularly known asChandra-Sena. The villagers re-gard Chandra-Sena as the cliief deity of the jts honour Udaparva or Chadaka Puja (thehook-swinging festival ) is celebrated with greateclat eveiy year and at the time ten to fifteenthousand men flock to this place. Brahmanas arenot entitled to perform its puja; tlie Dahuris orpriests of the deity, who do so, are a low classpeople of the village. The name Chandra-Sena excited our curio-sity and we becameeager to see
. The archaeological survey of Mayurabhanja. as she is( Plato Xo. 37 ). bank o[ a large tank in Badasai is asmall figure popularly known asChandra-Sena. The villagers re-gard Chandra-Sena as the cliief deity of the jts honour Udaparva or Chadaka Puja (thehook-swinging festival ) is celebrated with greateclat eveiy year and at the time ten to fifteenthousand men flock to this place. Brahmanas arenot entitled to perform its puja; tlie Dahuris orpriests of the deity, who do so, are a low classpeople of the village. The name Chandra-Sena excited our curio-sity and we becameeager to see it. Con-traiy to our expectationwe found that it wasnot the image of anyDeva, but simply asmall Buddhist chaityamade of stone which is1^ feet high. On eachside of this chaitya is anaked figure, whichappears to every oneto be the representa-tion of Bodhisattvas ina crude form. ( PlateNo. 53 ). As alreadyobserved, UdapaIva iscelebrated in honour ofChandra-Sena on thefull-moon day of Vai-^akha when great en-thusiasm is disj)layedby the m AM W m : m M^ ^!73f^H S3. Sena. 0 42 . rROPEU. The lUiddhists often worsliip stupas orcliaityas. In the Bara-Badar temple of Javawe come across numerous chaityas which thel)eople and the women-folk in particular, arerepresented as garlanding or otiierwise approach-ing* with marks of veneration. It was in this waythat Chandra-Sena, the votive chaitya caipe todraw the homage of the people of the About 200 yards on the south-east of thetemple of ra9a-Chandi, there is a very oldtank called Bodhipukur. Half of it has becomemarshy and is known as Bilgadia This hasnow been brought imder cultivation. Chandra-Sena nsed formerly to stand on the bank of thetank. The term Bodhipukur calls up Bud-dhistic associations. On the left side of Chandra-Sena is the imageof a goddess with two hands. She is popularlybut erroneousl} called Kalika. She holdsa kind of broom-stick, peculiar to Mayurabhanja,in her right ha
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