Crossword-Solution: BAKA 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Then comes Jatugrihadaha (setting fire to the house of lac) and then Hidimbabadha (the killing of Hidimba) parvas; then comes Baka-badha (slaughter of Baka) and then Chitraratha.

Human sacrifice was practised even by some who were well advanced, like the Aztecs and Peruvians." "Well, sir, this Bakaïri tribe believed that its god demanded a sacrifice yearly, and their priests taught them that a certain one of their number had been sent by their god for this sacrifice each year; that only by butchering this particular member of the tribe and--incredible as it sounds--eating his body and drinking his blood, could they avert drouth and pestilence and secure favours for the year to come.

Yet I suppose, sir, that the Christian god, in this limiting of the human sacrifice to one person, may be said to show a distinct advance over the god of the Bakaïri, though he seems to have been equally a tribal god, whose chief function it was to make war upon neighbouring tribes." "Yes, my boy--quite so," replied the old man most soothingly.

The neighbourhood of this city is haunted by another terrible giant, Baka, whose cannibal appetite has been glutted by a succession of meaner victims.

Our right wing had advanced slightly, and occupied a line from near El Mugheir to Es Sawieh, while our left wing had swung round and reached the line Bidich-Baka-Messudieh Junction--that is to say, we were gradually closing in on Nablus from the south, south-west, and west.