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entitled Kulzavi ; but having procured some extracts from it, and other 

 information concerning it, I ascertained that his principal arguments for the 

 necessity of this new religion are founded on the discrepancy which exists . 

 between the practice of Muhammedans and the precepts of the Koran ; and 

 he professes to promulgate in his book the remaining aO.OOO words, which 

 Muhammed, on the occasion of his miraculous ascent into heaven, was told 

 should be reserved for the coming of Imam Mehedi. 



The followers of this sect are called Dhamians ; and their dress is after 

 the Hindu fashion, to favour their interpretation of that passage of the 

 Koran, which says that Imam Mehedi will appear in disguise. They are to 

 be found in the Panjdb, in Gujerat, Delhi, Lulinow, Benares, Muthra, 

 Faizabad, and Nagpur ; but Pannd is their Mecca. Latterly they are said 

 to have made some progress ; but their whole number does not exceed 1500, 

 of which about twenty are employed at their place of worship at Pannd, 

 and the remainder are engaged in trade. The present establishment was 

 endowed by Rdjd Hindupati with a small portion of the diamond mines, 

 which affords subsistence to the devotees employed in their temple, and at 

 the shrine of their founder at Pannd. 



