jainteswari

Updated: May 5, 2025

Gait, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. i. of 1898, gives some account of the human sacrifices of the Jaintias or Syntengs. He writes as follows: They were also occasionally offered at the shrine of Jainteswari, at Nijpat, i.e. at Jaintiapur, the capital of the country.

P. R. T. (Philip Richard Thornhagh) Gurdon - The Khasis