Toshali Sands

Hiuen Tsang- Chinese traveller and scholar-journeyed, through Orissa in 638 AD-records an account of 50 Hindu temples, 100 Buddhist monasteris in U-cha(Odradesa) as well as 100 temples and 10 monasteris in Kong- Yu- To (Kangoda)-mentions Puspagiri as centre of Mahayana Buddhism Human sacrifice - Tantric Kapilakas and Kalamukhas offer human sacrifice to Bhairava who is iconographically represented as holding a knife in one hand and a severed human head in the other. Sati system is also a kind of human sacrifice prevailing in Orissa at one time -Sati temples of Sambalpur and Sundargargh bear testimony to this sacrifice. Chandra lekha, a sanskrit drama by Visvanath Kaviraj deals with the sati practice -human sacrifice is banned by law.

Bengal (Cuttack,Balasore and Puri ), History of Orissa (two volumes); Orissa Tributary states.