South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c11.s2.5

c11.s2.5

¹ Some of these inhuman practices seem to be but remnants of the older human sacrifices which were once quite a common feature of Sakti worship. Epigraphical evidence has been adduced to show that voluntary human sacrifices were offered even to the male deity Vīrabhadra (above, p. 161, footnote 2).