The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s3.33
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s3.33
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He also suppressed the sacrifice of white animals (buffaloes, kine, goats, pigs, fowls) to the Mahagiri spirit on Popa Hill;³ hitherto these animals had been killed for a feast, and their skulls were hung in strings all round the shrine; the worshippers drank intoxicants at the feast, and once a year the king and court shared in it as an act of state worship. Bayinnaung introduced prohibition and punished drunkenness with death. He enforced the divine command against taking life even to the extent of abolishing the Baqr ‘Īd among Muslim settlers.