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The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Note 97 — Chapter IV · THE WORSHIP OF THE SAINTED DEAD.

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Mistakes are, however, sometimes made. This was the case some time ago at Ajudhya, where certain images were discovered and worshipped, until a learned Pandit ascertained that they were actually the deities of the aboriginal Bhars, who used to sacrifice Brâhmans to them. They were really Jaina images, but it is needless to say that their worship was immediately abandoned.97

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