Storia do Mogor 265.3.4

265.3.4

Finding the door fastened inside, he called to his wife. As she gave no answer, he climbed over the garden wall. On drawing near the door of the room, he saw the entrails of the infant and the dead faqir with half his body outside. He shouted for his wife, and she from inside, without opening the door, gave an account of the event. The husband went at once to report to the ruler. On hearing the story, the latter praised the woman highly, and, going to the spot, made her mount his elephant, and took her all round the town as a token of great honour. When the prince of that land heard of the case, he gave orders that all faqirs found in his territories should be killed. In this way more than three thousand faqirs were destroyed — men who, under the cloak of sanctity, are the greatest villains in the world. Up to this day no faqirs wander into those parts.