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and kine, and sends him away penitent, and with a pious purpose to do so 

 no more. 



Of SuRSURANAND wc have a silly enough story of some cakes that were 

 given to him by a MlechcKha being changed when in his mouth into a Tulasi 

 leaf. Of Dhana, it is related that a Brahman, by way of a frolic, gave him 

 apiece of stone, and desired him to offer to it first, whatever he was about to 

 eat. Dhana obeyed, looking upon the stone as the representative of Vishi^u, 

 who being pleased with his devotion, appeared, and constantly tended the 

 cattle of the simple Jdt : at last he recommended his becoming the disciple of 

 Ramanand, for which purpose he went to Benares, and having received the 

 Mantra, returned to his farm. Raghunath, or in the text Asanand, succeed- 

 ed Ramanand in the Gaddit or the Pillow of the Mahant. Narahari or Harya- 

 NAND was also a pupil of Ramanand, whom it is difficult to identify with any 

 one in the list above given : we have a characteristic legend of him. 



Being one day in want of fuel to dress his meat, he directed one of his 

 pupils to proceed to a neighbouring temple of DEvf , and bring away from it 

 any portion of the timber he could conveniently remove : this was done, to the 

 great alarm, but utter helplessness of the goddess, who could not dispute the 

 authority of a mortal of Haryanand's sanctity. A neighbour who had observ- 

 ed vthis transaction laboured under a like want of wood : at the instigation of 

 his wife, he repaired also to the temple, and attempted to remove one of the 

 beams, when the goddess, indignant at his presumption, hurled him down and 

 broke his neck : the widow hearing of her husband's fate, immediately hastened 

 to the temple, and liberally abused the vindictive deity. Dev! took advantage 

 of the business to make a bargain for her temple, and restored the man to life, 

 on condition that he would ever afterwards buy fuel for Haryanand. 



The legends of such other disciples of Ramanand as occur in the BhaJcta 



