PURI
The Abode of Lord Jagannath

HISTORICITY

Several stories are narrated about the origin of the temple and its deities. Legend and history seem vying with each other in bringing out its divinity. So each guide, or local has his own version and interpretation, but confesses humbly that if one enters into the maze of its origin, none but God alone could take him out of it, for concrete evidence eludes the grasp of any of them. Ironically, divinity though invisible fills the soul of the devotee and makes him utter "Many and varied are the ways of God and this is one as such."

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