Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 01

SR No.: 007688
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London
Publication Year: 1861
Total Pages: 480
Language: English
Classification: Interfaith & Hinduism
File Size: 28 MB

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OF THE HINDUS.
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noticed, that some religious disputes, possibly connected with the history of Kabir, or that of some of his disciples, did occur.
These circumstances, connected with the acknowledged date of his death, render it exceedingly probable that Kabir flourished about the beginning of the 15th century—and as it is also not unlikely that his innovations were comected with the previous exertions of RÁMÁNANT), consequently that teacher must have lived about the end of the 14th.
According to one account, Kabir was originally named Jnání, the knowing or wise. The Musalmans, it is said, claim him as one of their persuasion, but
to set father, and son, and brother, at deadly variance?" He returned to his abode, and remained unmolested. [Price, Hindec and Hindust. Sel. I, 86.]
COLONEL MALCOLM in the note before cited, places him in the reign of Snir Smáu; this is, however, at variance with his own statements; Nának was in the height of his career in 1527, (A. R. XI, 206.) then imparting to Baber tenets wliich he had partly borrowed from the writings of Kabir, and which must consequently have been some time previously promulgated: but Suir Sush did not commence his reign till 1512, and it was therefore impossible for Kabir to have lived in his reign, and at the same time to have instigated by his own innovations the more successful ones of NÁNAK. Kabir's being contemporary with SEKANDER, is also mentioned in Priya DÁsa's expansion of the Bhakta Malá: it is likewise stated in the Kholassat al tawdrikh, and is finally established by ABULFAZI, who says that Karir, the Unitarian, lived in the reign of Sulton SECANDER Loni (wy: Ac: 2, 38.). [G. de Tassy, histoire de la littérature Hindoui et Hiudoustani. Paris: 1839 & 47. Vol. I, p. 275. II, 6.]