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APRIL, 1991
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Notes:
2. Nau nidhi. This expression is used in the sacred writings of the Sikhs to denote unlimited wealth and prosperity. In the sacred books of the Hindus the expression has a more definite numerical signification.
3. Majh ki War.
After this the Guru launched out into a satire on the Jains :
They have their hair plucked out, they drink dirty water, they beg and eat others' leavings; They spread out their ordure, they inhale its smell, they are shy to look at water; They have their heads plucked like sheep ; the pluckers' hands are smeared with ashes -- They spoil the occupations of their parents; their families weep and wail for them. They give not their deceased relations lamps or perform their last rites, or place anywhere barley rolls and leaves for them. The sixty-eight places of pilgrimage grant them no access ; the Brāhmaṇs will not eat their food. They are ever filthy day and night ; they have no sacrificial marks on their foreheads. They ever sit close as if they were at a wake, and they enter no assembly. They hold cups in their hands; they have brooms by their sides ; they walk in single file. They are not Jogis or Jangams, or Qázis, or Mullās. God hath ruined them ; they go about despised ; their words are like curses, God killeth and restoreth animals to life ; none else may preserve them, The Jains make not gifts or perform ablutions ; dust lighteth on their plucked heads.
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