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- n. Any member of an aboriginal hunter-gatherer tribe of India, inhabiting the tributary states of Orissa and Srikakulam.
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“Similarly the Kondwans apparently derive their name from the tract south of the Mahanadi which is named after the Khond tribe, and was formerly owned by them.”
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
“A man of the Panua tribe was once seen to load a Khond with curses, and finally to spit in his face, because the Khond had sold for a victim his own child, whom the Panua had wished to marry.”
“Once more the Khond custom of pouring water on the buried flesh of the victim is parallel to the European customs of pouring water on the personal representative of the corn-spirit or plunging him into a stream.”
“This later view of the Meriah as a victim rather than a divinity may perhaps have received undue emphasis from the European writers who have described the Khond religion.”
“The animal was torn in fragments, as the Khond victim was cut in pieces, in order that the worshippers might each secure a portion of the life-giving and fertilising influence of the god.”
“In these Khond sacrifices the Meriahs are represented by our authorities as victims offered to propitiate the Earth Goddess.”
“The same custom of killing the representative of a god, of which strong traces appear in the Khond sacrifices, may perhaps be detected in some of the other human sacrifices described above.”
“Both the Khond and the European customs are rain-charms.”
“ A man of the Panua tribe was once seen to load a Khond with curses, and finally to spit in his face, because the Khond had sold for a victim his own child, whom the Panua had wished to marry.”
“Yama has the buffalo (compare the Khond, wild-tribe, substitution of a buffalo for a man in sacrifice).”
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
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