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Chronicle · Palm-leaf chronicle kept over centuries

Madala Panji of the Jagannath temple

Found
Kept by the karanas (scribes) of the Jagannath temple at Puri, in Odia on palm leaf
Kept at
With the temple at Puri; copies in the Odisha State Museum, Bhubaneswar

The temple chronicle of Shri Jagannath: the kings of Odisha, the rites of the temple and the dangers it passed through.

What it says

It credits Anantavarman Chodaganga with building the present temple, lists the Gajapati kings, and records the times the deities were carried away and hidden to save them from attack, as in Kalapahad’s raid of 1568, when the daru images were burnt and a devotee is said to have saved the Brahma, the sacred core.

What it proves

It is the temple’s own memory of its history and the source for the Nabakalebara tradition and the Gajapati kings.

Evidence for