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Puri

Coastal city in Orissa, east India, 50 km/30 mi south of Bhubaneshwar; population (2001) 157,600. It is a religious centre with a temple dedicated to Jagganath or Vishnu, one of the three gods of Hinduism. A statue of the god, dating from about 318, is annually taken in procession on a large vehicle (hence the word ‘juggernaut’ used for a very large lorry). Devotees formerly threw themselves beneath its wheels.



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My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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