he was led forth magnificiently attired and deco- rated with gold and silver ornaments to be shewn to the multitude that assembled on the occasion, then withdrawn and led by a private path trodden only by the officiating priests and their victim to the brink of a deep hit where he was divested of his fineries and decapitaled, so that the body fell into the pit, The head was added to a heap of ghastly skulls that were piled in veiw of the shrine.”
“These sacrifices appeared to have continued till the sub-version of the Ahom Government by the Burmese when the Deoris–abandaned their ancient. possession in the vicinity of the Copper Temple to the fearful rites of which they had for upwards of six centuries administered with the strengh, by their own account, of some six hundred human victims.”
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