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20. NacirudMn and ) disciple8 f Shaikh Ndruddin. 



21. Babd Qidmuddin. ) 



22. Bdbd Asmduuchi gonyie. 



23. Hufiz Fathullah Khukwdni. 



24. RmniBdbd. Lived to the age of 120, during 109 yeard 

 of which, he fasted {rozah) by day. 



25. 67^/M ifcf/Y U'tur. Went on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Ate 

 nothing on the road. 



26. BdUZain-uddinRishi. His qauma'ah (cell) in the Khawl] 



where a spring of water is Baid to have spontaneously gushed 

 for his use. 



This brings me to the end of the notes I have taken on the Bub 

 ject of the Hermits or Eishis of Kashmir, and I almost regret that 

 my notes on the subject are so brief. 



Without having inaugurated much philosophy, or displ 

 marked learning, these holy men seem in the main to have beej 

 actuated by motives of piety and a desire for moral advancement, i 

 We might smile at the weak credulity which has invested their 

 memories with the attributes of superhuman wisdom and powej 

 hud we not parallel examples in sects of our own faith. We may 

 fairly credit to many of them lives of purity and moral excellence. 

 Dwelling amidst scenes of natural beauty and grandeur, the wild 

 freshness of nature seems to have touched their hearts with some- 

 thing of its kindred influences. In them far beyond most orientals, 

 do we recognise some germ of the romantic spirit of the north 

 and love of the picturesque, which we fail to trace in the southern 

 Shemitic races, but gleams of which sometimes crop out in the 

 Tatar and Mughul tribes. To complete this fragmentary sketch, 

 views of the localities and zidrats alluded to would be requisite, 

 as tending to shew the picturesque solitudes into which the 

 musing spirit of these recluses led them to wander. We need 

 not wonder at the choice of such retreats by calm and God-fearing 

 men, where amidst some of the most glorious scenery this earth 

 contains, they could taste of simple pleasures, exercise free thought, 

 and ' look from nature up to nature's God.' 



Forest of Kujear, Chumba, June, 1870. 



