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SBO OF THE MURDERERS 



^^ I give fhee the Dherma-paicLi and also, the mifTile weapon belongs 

 ^>^ ^^ 1^ ; the cracil/^conqucnng Ca'la-paIa, and the highly valued 



Siva is fometimcs, though very rarely, reprcfcnted with the 

 Viih% (t;)— VishnV, asHARi, is invoked in the Whagavat, and Taid 

 to hold it in one of his eight hands ; and Gan'eVa, as the lord of 

 mihsj lliatagcms, &c. is almoft always rep rerented with the Pas a, 



'How long the coontry fouthof the Kjstna has been infefted hy 



Fhdnsigdrsl know not, though it is certain that they have been fettled 



in the Foliurm of Chittoor for at leaft a century. On this point the 



P*y4flni%aVi thcmfelve^s are quite ignorant, knowing in general little 



fSnore than that their fathers and grandfathers followed the fame horrid 



employment, and taught it to their children. There is however n© 



greafon to fiippofe thatthe.praflice in this part oi laduf h of great an« 



tiquity. It.mzy alio be a quedion whether to the Rindus or to the 



Mujfdmans ought to be conlidercd as attaching the reproach of invent- 



iiigthis detc liable fyfl^m of pillage and murder. The refpedt paid by 



Mujfalman Fhdns'fgdr'S-iQt\^Q>Ta^n% and modes of divination, and to 



, the religious and idolatrous rites of the Bindus^SL refpedl apparently 



-iiot accidental, but which pervades, and feems interwoven with thdr 



%vhole fyllcm — affords grounds for the belief, that to thenij, rathsi^ihaii 



^0 the Mujfebnans^ is to be afcribed the inventipn, 



'On the other' hand it may 'be argued, that had the fe bands of mut'^ 

 idcrei:s coniifted primarily of Hindus, it 'would probably have aopear«d 



fij Book I. fe(ftitiit 26.— '1^5 Icjxned iranflatora of ihc Ra jiaVa^a, tUic ihc ^Js'a to have had tl.e 

 |to$7er (f( entangling or binding ihc-fuce aod fuppofe i( lo bare been a kind of gia or i:et. 



^mj A prin's in which Jayu or SirA, and 'Quiznkradi orGAn%A, are r-prcfenied wiih Jhe faJsA^ 

 ^W^l^^ba, found in Picail's Cu^ftoai* and ReiigiouJ Ccreroonies, Vc^. IIJ. page 457, 



