File:Códice Casanatense Hindu Self-Sacrifice.jpg
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English: An anonymous 16th century Portuguese illustration from the Códice Casanatense, depicting a Hindu ritual of self-sacrifice.
The inscription reads: "Sacrifice that the gentiles offer to their gods by killing themselves with their own hands. And this Brahmin who his the priest of his pagoda takes his head in a bowl full of blood as offering to the pagoda". |
| Date | circa 1540 |
| Source | Album di disegni, illustranti usi e costumi dei popoli d'Asia e d'Africa con brevi dichiarazioni in lingua portoghese, Casanata Library, Rome. http://opac.casanatense.it/Record.htm?Record=19921897124917490799 |
| Author | Unknown author |
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