. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. , the ruins of which over-spread the adjacent plain ; and near the citadel, on which the British flagwas lately planted, are two elegant minarets, built by Sultan Mahmud, whenGhazni was in all its glory. It is still considered a place of great impor-tance, on account of the strength of its fortifications, but it has no longerany claim to admiration as in days of old, when it was the splendid capitalof a great kingdom. About the time of the fall of the house of Ghazni, the celebrated templ
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. , the ruins of which over-spread the adjacent plain ; and near the citadel, on which the British flagwas lately planted, are two elegant minarets, built by Sultan Mahmud, whenGhazni was in all its glory. It is still considered a place of great impor-tance, on account of the strength of its fortifications, but it has no longerany claim to admiration as in days of old, when it was the splendid capitalof a great kingdom. About the time of the fall of the house of Ghazni, the celebrated templeof Juggernath was completed, at a town bearing the same name, situated onthe seacoast, in the province of Orissa, and within the British presidency ofBengal, at the distance of about two hundred and sixty miles south of Cal-cutta. According to the Hindu authorities, it was built A. D. 1198, byRaja Anonda Bheem Deb, under the superintendence of his minister,Bajpoi, at a cost of fifty lakhs of rupees, or two and a half millions ofdollars. It is surrounded with a stone wall twenty feet high, and forms a. MUSSULMAN CONQUESTS. 3S3 square of six hundred and fifty feet. • Besides the large pagoda, there areabout fifty smaller temples in honor of Shira Kalee and other Hindoo dei-ties. There are four gates, one at each side of the square, but the princi-pal entrance is the Singha-devar, or the • Lion-gate. Immediately beforethis gate, outside the wall, is a beautiful column, which formerly adornedthe black pagoda, but which was removed to its present position by awealthy inhabitant of Pooree ; it is in honor of the sun. Near the Singha-devar is a monastery, belonging to a sect of Voishnobs, very righly en-dowed, and frequented by the most learned pundits of India ; the mohont,or superior, is a venerable man, of high reputation for learning and sanctity,and is adored by his disciples, whose number, it is stated, amounts toseveral thousands. The principal building within the walls is
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