26i CALLED P'HA'NSIGA'RS.; 



Many P'A4?tis^a?*i4 who have become informers, have declared that 

 they never knew any of the abovementioned perfons to have been 

 deftroyed, and coaceived that no pecaaiary temptation could be fuf- 

 licientiy powerful to occaiiori a violation of the rule. Others have 

 Hated that they had heard of a gang of F/iansigdrs who, having mur- 

 dered a woman, nerer afterwards profpered, and were at length def- 

 troyed, NotwithRanding the reafons for acquiefcing generally in the 

 truth of the (tatement, that women, and men of particular carts, are 

 fpared, the following occurrences, in the latter of which not fewer, 

 than nine perfons difappeared, and who were almoft beyond doubt 

 murdered by P7idnsigars, fhew that their religious fcrupies on this 

 point are, when the temptation is great, at lead fometimes overcome. 



In the latter end of 1800, Mohamed Rous, the fubadar who com- 

 manded the efcort of the Resident of Myfore, being ordered to join 

 the force then forming againft the fouthern Folygars^ fent fome of his 

 family, among whom were two, if not three, women, to . Madras^ 

 'They were never heard of until June 1801 ; when a man was feized at 

 ^^7?^fl/(}f<f having in his poITeffion a bullock which was recognifed to 

 have belonged to Mohamed Rous, This man was 3l Fkansigdr s ^nd 

 gave a clear account of the umrder, by a gang to which he belong- 

 ed, of the fubadar's family. 



The wife of Kistna Row, in company with hi5 nephew, and at« 

 tended by a bramin cook j two female fervants, t^-o private peons, 

 and two coolies, ic^ o\xi horn Poonah vf'iih. four horfes to join Kistna 

 Rov/, then at Nagpun They bad nearly completed their jour- 

 ney, having arrived at a village about Mittn miles from the place 

 of their^ deftination, and fen^ to apprize- Kistna Row of their 

 approach. Two perfons wjrc fefefby him to €0Ddu6l the party 

 to iiagfilr; but fubiec|u€.atij 'tb 'the departure of the travellers 



