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4. Churáman Dás; these two were the sons of DHARMA DÁS, a merchant of the Kasaundhya tribe, of the Sri Vaishnava sect, and one of Kabir's first and most important converts; his residence was at Bandho near Jabbalpur, where the Maths of his posterity long remained: the Mahants were family men, thence termed Vans Gurus: the line of NÁRAYAŃ DÁS is extinct, and the present successor of Churámań, being the son of a concubine, is not acknowledged as a Mahant by all the other branches.
5. Jaggo Dás; the Gaddí or Pillow at Cuttack.
6. Jivan Dás, the founder of the Satnámi sect, to whom we shall again have occasion to advert.
7. Kamál.-Bombay: the followers of this teacher practice the Yoga. Kamál himself is said to have been the son of Kabir, but the only authority for this is a popular and proverbial phrase '. 8. Ták Sáli.-Baroda.
9. Jnání.—Majjhní near Saháśram.
10. Saheb Dás.-Cuttack: his followers have also some distinct notions, and form a sect called Múla Panthis.
11. Nityanand.
12. Kamál Nád: these two settled somewhere in the Dekhan, but my informant could not tell me exactly where. There are also some popular, and per
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डूबा वंश कबीर का जो उपा पुत कमाल || "The Race of Kabir became extinct when his son KAMÁL was born," KAMÁL adopting, on principle, a life of celibacy, or being a person of worldly appetites. - Roebuck's Proverbs, II, 1, 656.
