Indian State Railways Magazine December 1936

On the temple steps under the great mosque of Auangzeb between the palaces of the fervent Hindus intent on a deathbed in the holy city and the gregreen greasy river the people were heaped like the heads of jasmine and yellow daisies in the bakets of the flower sellers. [...] The lamps were reflected again and again in the surfaces of brass and silver in the sheen of fruit the glitter of toys and the soft gleam of silks. [...] Puri is visited by hundreds of thousands of Hindus every year not for the architectural beauty of the temple but because of the great sanctity attached to the temple of Jagannath and the car festival in the month of July. [...] This description will convey some idea of the nature of the country in the vicinity of the stark and precipitous range of hills just beyond the borders of Sind which also echoed to the tramp of the Macedonian legions. [...] In front and to the right the ground sloped gently down in full view of the herd And the only possible approach was along and below the crest of cliffs to the left.