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ferred upon him all his desires. Whilst on a pilgrimage, the wife of a Brah- 

 man fell in love with him, but he replied to her advances, by stating, that a 

 throat must be cut before he would comply, which she misinterpreting, cut 

 off her husband's head: finding Sa^dhna regarded her on this account with in- 

 creased aversion, she accused him of the crime, and as he disdained to vindi- 

 cate his innocence, his hands were cut off as a punishment, but they were 

 restored to him by Jagannath. The woman burnt herself, on her husband's 

 funeral pile, which Sadhna observing, exclaimed ; *' No one knows the ways 

 of women, she kills her husband, and becomes a Sati,'* which phrase has 

 passed into a proverb. What peculiarity of doctrine he introduced amongst 

 the Vaishnavas of his tribe, is no where particularised. 



MXdho is said to have been an ascetic, who founded an order of men- 

 dicants called Mddliavis : they are said to travel about always with a Saroda 

 ' or Balian, stringed instruments of the guitar kind, and to accompany their 

 ' solicitations with song and music : they are rarely if ever to be met with, and 

 their peculiarity of doctrine is not known. The founder appears to be the 

 same with the Madhoji of the Bhakta Mala, who was an inhabitant of Gara- 

 gerh, but there are several celebrated ascetics of the same name, especially a 

 Madho Das, a Brahman of Kanoj^ who was a man of considerable learning, 

 and spent some time in Orissa and Vrinddvan. He was probably a follower 



ofCuAITANYA, 



SANYASIS, VAIRAGIS, &c. 



Much confusion prevails in speaking of the mendicant and monastic 

 orders of the Hindus, by the indiscriminate use of the terms prefixed to this 

 division of our subject, and from considering them as specific denominations. 

 They are, on the contrary, generic terms, and equally applicable to any of 



