shakespeare noted that the loi people regarded god panam ningthou as a special deity of the meitei king. he further noted that the king himself provided sacrificial animals to the god. buffalo was one among the sacrificial animals used to be sacrificed during the lai haraoba festival. pigs were sacrificed when there was no lai haraoba festival. whenever there was any suspicion of danger to the meitei king, the king would send a pig and a cock to be sacrificed to god panam ningthou of andro.