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THE MODERN LITKBABY HISTORY OF HINDUSTAN. 
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a virgin Brahman widow. He was exposed by her, and was found 
on a lotus in Lahar Talao, a pond near Banaras, by the wife of 
a Jolaha or Musalman weaver named Nima, who with her husband 
Nuri was there in attendance on a wedding procession. He is said 
to have lived 300 years, or from 1149 to 1449 A.D., and in fact 
he flourished about the beginning of the fifteenth century. 1 
A complete list of a voluminous mass of writings attributed to Kablr, 
as preserved in the collection called the Khas Granth, will be found 
in Wilson, Religious Sects of the Hindus , i, 76, and is here reproduced 
for ready reference. Cf. also Garcin de Tassy (Histoire, etc. i, 274). 
(1) Sukh Nidhan. 
(2) Gorakh Nath ki Goshthl. 
(3) Kablr Pahji. 
(4) Balakh kl Ramatnl . 
(5) Ramanand ki Goshthl . 
( 6 ) Anand Ram Sagar. 
(7) Sabdabali, containing 1,000 sabdas, or short doctrinal 
expositions. 
(8) Mag gal, 100 short poems, amongst which is the account of 
Kablr’s discovery given as above. 
(9) Basant, 100 hymns in that Rag. 
(10) Holi, 200 of the songs called Holi. 
(11) Rekh’tas, 100 odes. 
(12) c Jhul’nas, 500 odes in a different style. 
(13) Khas’ra, 500 odes in a different style. 
(14) Hindols, 12 ditto. The subject of all these odes or hymns 
is always moral or religious. 
(15) Barah Masa, the 12 months from a religious point of view, 
agreeably to Kablr’s system. 
(16) Ghahchars, 22. 
(17) Ghdutisas, 2 ; the 34 letters of the Nagarl alphabet, with 
their religious signification. 
(18) Alifnamah, the Persian alphabet in the same manner. 
(19) Ramamis, short doctrinal or argumentative poems. 
(20) Sakhls, 5,000. These may be considered as texts, consisting 
of one stanza each. 
(21) The Bijak (Pag ) (the greater and the lesser), in 654 sections. 
There is also a variety of stanzas, called Agams, Banis, etc., 
composing a very formidable course of study to those who wish to go 
deep into the doctrine of this school. 
1 For further particulars see Wilson, Religious Sects of the Hindus , i, 73. 
