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| Description | "Feeding the sacred kite at Turnkali. To the Hindu every living thing is sacred, an object of protection and veneration. Here we see a priest, at Turnkali Koondrum, feeding one of the sacred kites—sacred not only as one of the animal creation, but as a special bird of the Sun. Like many other religious observances of Eastern origin, that which prescribes the preservation and protection of the kite is in thorough accord with the conditions and requirements of daily life. The kite and the vulture are among the greatest scavengers of the East, and their preservation is of the utmost importance in a land where decay is rapid, and where sanitary regulations are to a large extent unknown." - this is actually an Egyptian Vulture at Tirukalugukundram. | ||
| Date | between 1897 and 1899 | ||
| Source | The Queen's Empire. Volume 1. Cassell & Co., London | ||
| Author | Nicholas and Co. Madras | ||
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