440 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1911. 
with all Sudras ; but one day unknowingly Mdnd partook of 
some food off a leaf plate which had been left by Dédnd as his 
jhitd. Dénd thereupon outcasted Mand, and this following 
upon the loss of his choti was the last straw! Mdnd’s wife, as 
I have said, was Nathiyd ; she died before Mdnd’s degradation, 
and this is why it is explained all married Gehdrds when they 
die are cremated, while the unmarried are buried—in a lying 
posture, face upwards—head to the north and feet to the south. 
he said his pir was ‘‘ Ram Dijai whose shrine is at Ronéché 
near Pokerji in-ridsat Jodhpore,’’ and I believe this is all it 
he could not cross over, he laid him down to sleep among 
the kas or feathery rushes on the bank. At midnight he 
awoke, and it being moonlight with a wind blowing, the mov- 
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: 1 Kabir or Kubeer, a well-known Deist and S: fi t of humble | 
“2 Sone og founde: of the sect known as Kabi .o a és 
soh raha = hee sine. well be an invention, a nickname Bs ‘ 
