The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.14

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³ For another instance of trial by ordeal, see page 556 above, and note 5. In the article on trial by ordeal among the Hindûs, published in the *Asiatic Researches*, Vol. I., fifth edition, p. 389, the eighth method is described thus: "They make an iron ball, or the head of a lance, red-hot, and place it in the hands of the person accused; who, if it burn him not, is judged guiltless."