The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s4.58

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“Now in that country it is the custom never to bury the dead, but bodies are cast into the fields, and thus are speedily destroyed and consumed by the excessive heat; so the bodies of these friars lay for fourteen days in the sun and yet were found quite fresh and undecayed as if on the very day of their glorious martyrdom.” So the Christians buried them. Afterwards Odoric came, and took their bones which worked various miracles.¹