mo CALLED P'HA'NSI'gArS. 



£on to whom it belonged was murdered, nor where it was like!/ to be 

 recognized, of which the P'kdns/gdrs were enabled to judge by the 

 information imparted to them by the credulous fufferers. 



The frequent aflbciation of the moft abje^ fupcrftition, with the 

 dcepefl guilt, has been often noticed. The juftnefs of the obfervatiorj 

 is exemplified in the co.ndu6l of moft — perhaps of all — clafles oi Indian 

 delinquents, and remarkably fo in that of the P'hdns'igdrs, Their fyftem,, 

 indeed, feems to be founded on the bafis of fuperftition. They pay the 

 moH fervile regard to omens ; and tbey never leave their abodes to go on, 

 an expedition, Without a previous perfuafion, derived from modes of 

 devination in ufe among them, that it will be attended with fucceis* 

 Though the Fhdnsigdrs are almofl all mujulmans, they have neverthc- 

 lefs uaiverf^Hy adopted on certain occafionss the idolatrous worlliip of 

 Hindu dei ieso Cali' or Marriatta, (the goddefs of fmall-pox of the 

 Carnatic,) is regarded as their tutelary deity, and is the objed of theit 

 sdoration. She is ufually invoked by them under the names of Jay% 

 or Ayi, and of TuljapurI. (hj Before an expedition is deter- 

 rained on an entertainment l& given, when the ceremony of facriiicing: 

 a fheep to Jyu is performed j and though perhapa not always yet it 

 Would feem generally, in the following manner. A Elver or brazeE-,. 

 image of the goddefsg with certain paraphernalia pertaining to her? 



{k) Colonel I oL!N Mackinssb, f) well known for hi« fiiCceGsful lefejrchss iato ladiajt hiS-jry and' 

 antiquiiies, obferves, in a letter to m*, «« ihu it was the cuftom of rasnj of the ancient ksads of families, 

 that h v; I lifed thcmfclvea by depredation to r<nk and povrcr, to c»ncil'»te Ca'ls-'j hence ihe faeri'fitej ©f' 

 hiw^an kin'l, of officings of naf 9, and oliisivtcly of foccp by ihe Rajahs of Mj/ore ; aivd now the c-jmrauc^. 

 tation of cocoanu.ts at the hill of Mj/ore^ which dcsifee m. aame frum MaheV-a^ura MAaDAWA'j 

 an)ther aame for Ca'h . 



« At Chiittldneg alfo the ancient /'?/j'j'<iw worfhippiid a»J faciificed to Ca li , and even fti|1 at Tuljafuri 

 on the weftcris ghauts, 300 mile* weft of Hydrabad, on the road to Foonah. I was thet; in March 1797. 

 It isacelfbrated t<m,leof Ca'lI t where the pjoja i» performed by a low tribe tfid not by bramins, «ho 

 abhor the fe rlics. It is even fo much fufpefled that iafamouj titej and human vi^ims were off; ed thefe» 

 aliit myhcsd brarnin {the late valued Bor'tah) horror-ftruck by the accouasi be leccive^. urged vnf (ie^e. 

 Siase fiOiTi fuljapitr a:id wai n»t eafy ttll we got avraj," 



