i304 -SKETCH OF THE SIKHS, 



the Prophet Elias, termed by the Muhammedans, Khi%zer, from whom 



he learnt all earthly sciences. 



While NaVac remained in the pool, abstra6led from all worldly con- 

 siderations, holding converse with a Prophet, poor Jayra'm was put iri 

 prison by Daulet Kha'n Lo'di, on the charge of having dissipated his 

 property. Na'nac, however, returned, and told Daulet Kha'n that 

 Jayra'm was faultless ; that he was the object of punishment; and that, 

 as such, he held himself ready to render the stri(5lest account of all hk 

 had lost. The Kha'n accepted his proposal: Jayra'm's accounts were 

 settled ; and, to the surprize of all, a balance was found in his favor ; on 

 which he was not only released, but reinstated in the employment and 

 favor of his master. We are told, by the Sikh authors, that these wonder- 

 ful a6lions increased the fame of Na'nac in a very great degree ; and that 

 he began, from this period, to pra6lise all the austerities of a holy man^ 

 and, by his frequent abstra6lion in the contemplation of the divine beings 

 and his abstinence and virtue, he soon acquired great celebrity, through all 

 the countries into which he travelled, 



^' There are many extravagant accounts, regarding the travels of Na'nac, 

 ©ne author,* who treats of the great reform which he made in the wor-^ 

 ship of the true GoDj which he found degraded by the idolatry of the 

 Hindus^ and the ignorance of the Muhammedans ^ relates his journey to 

 all the different HMi^^ places of pilgrimage ^ and to Mecca ^ the holy temi» 

 pie of the Muhammedans o ' ■■ '■./'■- 



It would be tedious^ and foreign to the purpose of this sketch, to ac- 

 * Bhas Gwru ValIj, author ©f ifee Unyma Ralnmali^ a work written ia the ^ikh 



