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disappearance-a Melá, or fair, is held annually, from the day of new moon to that of full moon in Phalgun (Febr.-March) at Naraina. The tenets of the sect are contained in several Bhasha works, in which it is said a vast number of passages from the Kabir writings are inserted, and the general character of which is certainly of a similar nature'. The Dádú Panthis maintain a friendly intercourse with the followers of Kabir, and are frequent visitors at the Chaura.
OF THE HINDUS.
[To supply the deficiency alluded to in the note, we reprint from the 6th volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal pp. 484-87, and 750-56, the translation, by Captain G. R. Siddons, of two chapters from one of the granths or manuals of the Dádúpanthis. The translator gives (p. 750) the following particulars respecting his visit to one of their Maths:
"When not interested in the subject, I chanced to visit one of the Dádúpanthi institutions at a village near Sambhur, and was particularly struck by the contented and severe countenances of the sectaries. There were a Principal and several Professors, which gave the place the appearance of a College. The former occupied a room at the top of the building, and seemed quite absorbed in meditation.-The sect is maintained by the admission to it of proselytes, and marriage is, I believe, forbidden; as also the growing any hair about the face, which gives to the priests the appearance of old women."
I had prepared a list of the contents of one of their manuals, and a translation of a few passages, but the Manuscript has been mislaid. The work was lent me for a short time by one of the sect, who would on no account part with it. The above notice was taken partly from a statement in Hindi, procured at Naraina by Lieut. Col. SMITH, and partly from verbal information obtained at Benares. Dádú is not mentioned in the Bhakta Málá, but there is some account of him in the Dabistán. [Engl. translation, II, p. 233.]
