After talking over the matter which caused his visit, I told him of the Lodhi woman's burning herself with the Brahman banker at Sihora, and asked him what he thought of it.

He said that 'In all probability this woman had really been the wife of the Brahman in some former birth--of which transposition a singular case had occurred in his own family.
'His great-grandfather had three wives, who all burnt themselves with his body.

While they were burning, a large serpent came up, and, ascending the pile, was burnt with them.

Soon after another came up, and did the same.

They were seen by the whole multitude, who were satisfied that they had been the wives of his great-grandfather in a former birth, and would become so again after this sacrifice.