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THE MODERN LITEBAEY HISTORY OF HINDttSTlN. ^ 166 . 
Hap, Sud. He was a devotee at Brindaban, and was the author of 
a standard work entitled Kabya Kalpadrum, 
166. the poet Sri Dhar, of Raj’putana. B.16S3 
A.D. 
Sud (?). The author of a work dealing with Durga, entitled 
Bhawani Chhand. 
167* Pran Nath, the Chhattn of Par'na ( Panna), 
in Bundel’hhand. FI. 1650. 
The founder of the Pran’nathl sect, an attempt at uniting the 
Hindu and Musalman religions. He attended the court of Chhattr’ Sal 
(fl. 1650), of Par’nd (Panna) (Ho. 197). See Growse, J. A. S. B., xlviii, 
p. 171, where a specimen of one of his works (the Qiyamat Nama ) 
is given and translated. Mr. Growse is wrong in putting him at 
the beginning of the eighteenth century, for Chhattr’ Sal died in 1658. 
Pran Nath was the author of fourteen works, of which a list is 
given by Mr. Growse, l.c. The language is peculiar, the grammatical 
structure being purely Hindi while the vocabulary is mainly supplied 
from Persian and Arabic. 
168. Blr Bhdn, of Brijhaslr. FI. 1658 A.D. 
The founder of the sect of Sadhs, the doctrines of which he taught 
in consequence of a miraculous communication received from one 
Uday DaS, According to others he was a disciple of one Jogi Das . 
The doctrines taught by his superhuman instructor were communi¬ 
cated in the form of Sabds and Sakhis, detached Hindi verses like 
those of Kablr. They are collected into manuals and read at the 
religious meetings of the Sadhs. See Wilson, Religious Sects of the 
Hindus , i, 354, and Garcin de Tassy, i, 125. 
169. Sri Guru Gobind Siygh. B. 1666 A.D. 
The celebrated founder of the militant Sikh religion. He was a 
Paniabi 1 of the Socli Khattri caste, and was born in Anand'pur, in 
1 I am indebted for most of this information to Fay Jai Krisk’n, of Pat’na, 
who is a trustee of the Sikh temple there. 
