https://t.inks.page/wiki/Decapitation Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Decapitation?t=2026-04-11 The beautiful coconut trees which once graced the gardens surrounding the city of Madura, have been cut down by these intruders, and in place of these, we have gruesome substitutes in the form of iron sula, which are adorned with garlands of decapitated human heads strung together.

• (Madhura Vijaya 1924: 5-7). quoted in Jain, M. (2019). Flight of deities and rebirth of temples: Episodes from Indian history.253ff

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