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At or about 1321 A.D, the good (?) Friar Odoric witnessed an annual festival at or near the town of Puri (India?) in which devotees of Krishna allowed themselves to be crushed under the wheels of a large wagon carrying an image of the god. Altered from Jaggernaut, a title of Krishna (an incarnation of Vishnu), from the Hindi Jagganath, literally "the lord of the world", from the Sanskrit jagat, meaning "world" + natha-s, meaning "lord, master".

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