 ... etc. are thrown. This sacrifice continues all night, the Panika sacrificer above, and his immured colleague below, repeating their incantations all the while. In the morning the pit is opened, and the man returns to the light of day. These sacrifices...  Mysore and Coorg: Coorg - Page 265by Benjamin Lewis Rice - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Herrmann Mögling - 1855 - 236 pages
...light of day. These sacrifices are called Maranada bali (death-atonements.) They cost from 30 to 150 Rupees. Instead of a human being, a cock is sometimes shut up in the pit. It seems, as if these performances were relics of human sacrifices offered in times long past. But... | |
 | G. Richter - 1870 - 510 pages
...pit is opened, and the man returns to the light of day. These sacrifices are called Mdranada Itali or death-atonements. They cost from 10 to 15 Rupees....cocoanuts, bread, and plantains from the different houses, and depositing them at the Mandu; whence they are carried in a procession with tomtoms. In... | |
 | G. Richter - 1870 - 524 pages
...the pit is opened, and the man returns to the light of day. These sacrifices are called Mdranada ball or death-atonements. They cost from 10 to 15 Rupees....cases of sore afflictions befalling a whole grama or ndd such as small-pox, cholera or cattle-disease, the ryots combine to appease the wrath of Mdri-amma... | |
 | Government Museum (Madras, India) - 1901 - 534 pages
...of day. These sacrifices are called MAEANADA BALI or death atonements. They cost from ten to fifteen rupees. Instead of a human being, a cock is sometimes...the pit, and killed afterwards. " In cases of sore affliction befalling a whole GRAMA or NAD, such as small-pox, cholera, or cattle disease, the ryots... | |
 | Edgar Thurston - 1912 - 364 pages
...the man returns to the light of day. These sacrifices are called maranada bali, or death atonements. Instead of a human being, a cock is sometimes shut up in the pit, and killed afterwards." Evidence is produced by Mr Rice : that, in former days, human sacrifices were offered in Coorg, to... | |
 | Henry Whitehead - 1916 - 212 pages
...day. These sacrifices are called maranada bali, or death atonements. They cost from ten to fifteen rupees. Instead of a human being, a cock is sometimes...the pit and killed afterwards. ' In cases of sore affliction befalling a whole Grama or Nad (village) such as small-pox, cholera, or cattle disease,... | |
 | Edgar Thurston, C.I.E. - 1912 - 370 pages
...the man returns to the light of day. These sacrifices are called maranada ball, or death atonements. Instead of a human being, a cock is sometimes shut up in the pit, and killed afterwards." Evidence is produced by Mr Rice J that, in former days, human sacrifices were offered in Coorg, to... | |
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