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her for having no spiritual guide ; she of course carried her troubles 

 to her lord, and implored him to tell her who their guru was : he 

 answered, that she must be patient, as the teacher was yet only a child 

 of six years : but she was too true a woman to be put off with such a 

 reply, and possibly felt that, whether the spiritual benefits to be de- 

 rived from the holy guide were essential or not, the free use of the 

 well was. Accordingly Rai Mull was talked over, and he set off at once 

 with his wife to Kealah, a village in the neighbourhood of Battalah. 

 On approaching the village, they see a group of children at play, one 

 of whom, Ram Thamman, is at once pointed out by Rai Mall as 

 their guru ; when, however, he proceeded to prostrate himself before 

 him, the child told him that he had come sooner than he should, as 

 the time for his manifestation had not arrived ; still as he had been 

 thus hasty, his labour should not be in vain, as he would accompany 

 him. Rai Mall was then carrying him away in his arms, when the 

 child's parents, who were Khatrees of the village, came out with their 

 friends, and after beating the strangers, rescued the lad. Filial duty, 

 however, does not appear to have been one of the pious founder's 

 virtues, for he annihilated at once, (how, is not said,) the whole of his 

 too officious kindred, with the exception of one woman whom he 

 spared, as she vowed that the child of which she was then pregnant 

 should become his disciple. Rai Mull then took Ram Thamman with 

 him to Urarah, thinking possibly that the good people of Killah were 

 unworthy of having so holy a youth dwelling among them. After two 

 years, however, the prodigies the youth performed won him so little 

 favour, that he was summarily ejected from Urarah ; on which, having 

 cursed the place, he removed to a spot two coss off from the site of 

 the present monastery. 



" After this migration he begun to enrol disciples, Rai Mull holding 

 the first place among the twelve who attached themselves to him. 

 The present fraternity at Thamman are the successors of six of these, 

 the remaining moiety having left no disciples. Subsequently, he is 

 said to have removed to a neighbouring village, the proprietor of 

 which, a Musulman named Kalu Kara, became as much disgusted 

 with the prodigies and miracles wrought by the holy man as the 

 Urarah people had been before him, and imperatively ordered him to 

 quit his land. This order, Ram Thamman quietly met by saying 



