Account of the Temple of Jagannath “Lord of the World” at Puri The Most Sacred Hindu Temple in India

The landing on the top of the stairs is narrow and usually littered by the trays and pots of the dealers in the sacred food of the divinity. [...] A more natural and simple solution of the miracle hoever is offered by the fact that the high walls round the enclosure intercept the waves of the sound and the in of the crowd within and the courtyard is at visiting times always densely crowded drowns whatever sounds come over them."* " The smaller niches and recesses in the body of the temple and of the Porch or Audience Hall have a gr [...] The cooks employed are of the lowest 'caste but after the food is offered to the divinity it is called Mahapraiad and esteemed the holiest of the holy in the universe and the highest gods are blessed if they can partake of it. [...] Three operations are accomplished during the 15 days of the so-called fever and the obvious impropriety of allowing the public to see the figures devoid of their paint suggests the necessity of closing the doors. [...] The progress made varies greatly according to the state of the roads the care used in keeping the cars in a proper direction the zeal and ;lumber of the pilgrims and the will of priests or as they say of the god the former having some method of choking the wheels and thereby preventing the movement of the cars notwithstanding the utmost efforts of the credulous multitude to advance forward.*