THE MODERN LITERARY HISTORY OF HINDUSTAN. 
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Agar’wala (No. 640), of Mirapur, translated the Bhakt Mala into 
Urdu, calling his translation the Bhakt Mai Pradlpccn. 
The name Narayan Das, which Mr. drowse attributes to a disciple 
of Nabha Das, was, according to Native writers, really the actual name 
of Nabha Das, the latter being his nom de guerre . Nabha Das is 
possibly the same as a Narayan Das Kabi mentioned in the Sib Siygh 
Sardj as born in 1558 A.D. and author of a translation of the 
Hitopadeea and Rajaniti into the vernacular, and as another Narayan 
Das, a Yaishnava author of an undated prosody describing 52 metres, 
entitled Chhand Sar. 
52. the poet Kanhar Das , of Braj. 
FI. 1600 A.D. 
Dag. He was son of Bitthal Das Chaube, of Mathura. At a meet¬ 
ing held at his house Nabha Das (No. 51) received the title of Gosdi. 
53. *Tf the poet Sri Bhatt • B. 15 J+U A.D. 
Dag. He is said to have excelled in describing the actions of a 
lover and his beloved. Possibly the same as Kesab Bhatt (see Wilson, 
Religious Sects of the Hindus , i, 151), one of the pupils of Nlmdditya. 
54. 3jth Byas Swami alias Hari Ram Suk’l, of 
Ur’chha, in Bunded khand. FI. 1555 A.D. 
Dag. He was a Gaur Brahman of Deb’band, and joined the Radha- 
ballabhl sect. In the year 1555 A.D., when he was forty-five years of 
age, he settled in Brindaban and founded a new Yaishnava religion, 
entitled the Haribyasi sect. According to Wilson (. Religious Sects of 
the Hindus, p. 151), he and Kesab Bhatt were pupils of Nlmdditya 
(Dag.), the founder of the Nimawat sect. 
55. Parasu Ram, of Braj. B. 1603 A.D. 
Dag., Dig. He was a follower of Sri (Kesab) Bhatt an&Haribyds 
(see Wilson, Religious Sects of the Hindus , p. 151). It is not certain 
that the poets quoted in Dag and Dig. are the same person. 
56. 
•) the very holy 
master Hit Haribans, FL 1560 A.D. 
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