Travels in the Mogul Empire / ... Translated from the French by Irving Brock.
- François Bernier
- Date:
- 1826
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Travels in the Mogul Empire / ... Translated from the French by Irving Brock. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![NOTE H. I subjoin a few extracts from Dr. Claudius Buchanan’s Journal during his tour to the Tem- ple of Juggernaut in Orissa, in the year 1806. | “ Budderick, May 30, 1806. __« We know that we are approaching Jugger- naut (and yet we are more than fifty miles from it) by the human bones which we have seen for some days strewed by the way. We have been joined by perhaps 2000 pilgrims, who have come from various parts of Northern India. Some say that they have been two months on their march, travelling in the hottest season of the year, with their wives and children. Numbers of pilgrims die on the road ; and their bodies generally remain “unburied. Ona plain by the river, near the pil- grim’s caravansera at this place, there are more than a hundred skulls. | « ] passed a devotee to-day who laid himself down at every step, measuring the road to Jug- gernaut by the length of his body, as a penance of merit to please the God.” | } « Juggernaut, 14th June, 1806. « | have seen Juggernaut. No record of his- tory can give, I think, an adequate idea of this valley of death : it may be truly compared with](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29349783_0641.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
