The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.319

v2.c17.s1.319

‘This erection is in itself really imposing; sumptuously decorated and put in movement in honour of her who gave birth to the God of Charity. But its functions recall to mind the famed car of Juggernauth, or the nefarious hecatombs of the Druids. The heart sickens at sight of it and it is difficult to refrain from crying shame upon the horrible barbarity; for bound to the rays of sun and moon, to the circles forming the spheres of the various planets, are infants yet unweaned, whose mothers, for the gain of a few ducats, thus expose their offspring, to represent the cherub cscort which is supposed to accompany the Virgin to heaven.