Mir Sahib, think that they continue to offer up human sacrifices anywhere ?' 'Certainly I do.

There is a Raja at Ratanpur, or somewhere between Mandla and Sambalpur, who has a man offered up to Devi every year, and that man must be a Brahman.

If he can get a Brahman traveller, well and good; if not, he and his priests offer one of his own subjects.

Every Brahman that has to pass through this territory goes in disguise.[8] With what energy did our emperor Aurangzeb apply himself to put down iniquities like this in the Rajputana states, but all in vain.

If a Raja died, all his numerous wives burnt themselves with his body--even their servants, male and female, were obliged to do the same; for, said his friends, what is he to do in the next world without attendants?
The pile was enormous.