 | William Ford - India - 1887 - 288 pages
...of fanatics under the wheels of his car. " We know that we are approaching Juggernat'h (and we are fifty miles from it) by the human bones which we have seen for some days strewed by the way Numbers of pilgrims die on the road, and their bodies generally remain unburied. A letter from an eje-witness... | |
 | Vishal Mangalwadi, Ruth Mangalwadi - Religion - 1999 - 164 pages
...Postmodern Hindu). Budruck, in Orissa, May 30, 1 806: We know that we are approaching Juggernaut (and yet we are more than fifty miles from it) by the human...joined by several large bodies of pilgrims, perhaps 2,000 in number, who have come from various parts of Northern India. Some of them, with whom I have... | |
 | Brian K. Pennington - Religion - 2005 - 260 pages
...was still two weeks outside the city, he observed, "We know that we are approaching Juggernaut ... by the human bones which we have seen for some days strewed by the way."132 Colonies of vultures and jackals seemed to live exclusively on the human flesh of dead pilgrims... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1819 - 584 pages
...observations. ' Buddruck, in Orissa, May 30, 1806. 'WE know that we are approaching Juggernaut (and yet we are more than fifty miles from it) by the human...large bodies of pilgrims, perhaps 2000 in number, who have come from various parts of Northern India. Some of them, with whom I have conversed, say,... | |
 | English literature - 1811 - 540 pages
...year 1806. "Suddruck in Orissa, May 30th, 1806. " We know that we are approaching Juggernaut (and yet we are more than fifty miles from it) by the human...joined by several large bodies of pilgrims, perhaps 200O in number, who have come from various parts of Northern India. Some of them, with whom I have... | |
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At this place we have been joined by several large bodies of pilgrims, perhaps 2000 in number, who have come from various parts of Northern India. Some of them, with whom I have conversed, say that they have been two months on their march, travelling... 
