Note 48 — Chapter IV · THE WORSHIP OF THE SAINTED DEAD.
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We shall come elsewhere on instances of the belief that human beings were sacrificed under the foundations of important buildings. Nathu Kahâr, the godling of the Oudh boatmen, is said to have been buried alive under the foundations of the fort of Akbarpur in the Faizâbâd District, where a fair is held in his honour.48 At the last census one hundred and twenty-four thousand persons recorded themselves as his votaries.