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7. Sabddvaliy containing 1,000 SahdaSy or short doctrinal expositions. 



8. Mangala, 100 short poems, amongst which is the account of Kabir's 

 discovery as given above. 



9. Vasanty 100 hymns in that IlSga. 



10. Holi, 200 of the songs, called HolL 



11. Bek'Jitas, 100 odes. 



12. JJiulanaSy 500 odes, in a different style. 



13. KahdraSy 500 odes, in a different style. 



14. Hindolas, 12 ditto ditto. The subject of all these odes, or hymns, 

 is always moral or religious. 



15. Bdrah Mdsa, the 12 months in a religious view, agreeably to Kabir's 

 system. 



16. CliancJiaras 22. 



17. Chautisas 2 : the 34> letters of the Nagarl alphabet, with their reli- 

 gious signification, 



18. Alefnamah, the Persian alphabet in the same manner. 



19. Ramainis, short doctrinal or argumentative poems* 



Sdk'his 5,000, these may be considered as texts, consisting of one stanza 

 each. 



20. Tlie VijeJc, in 654f Sections.* 



* There are two Bijeks, however, only differing in the occasional omission'of some passages 

 and introduction of others; the longer of the two, they say, was communicated by Kabir himself 

 to the Raja of Benares. I rather suspect, however, that the varieties are only those common to 

 most Hindu Manuscripts, and that many more than two varieties are to be found. A curious Italian 

 work on the Kabir Panthis, entitled, but not accurately, Mulapanci, intending no doubt Mulapandiif 

 or Radical disciple, not as rendered, Delia Radke, is published in the third volume of the Mines of 

 the East : it was found amoligst the papers of the Propaganda, and is communicated by Monsignore 

 MuNTER, Bishop of Zealand, in Denmark; an eminent Scholar, the author of a valuable 

 work on the Sahidic Version of the N. T. &c. It is to be presumed, that it is intended to be 

 a translation of some Kabiui work, but how correctly it deserves this character, may be questioned; 

 much of the phraseology of the sect is indeed closely followed, but the miaute and ridiculous 



