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preting, cut off her husband's head: finding Sadhná regarded her on this account with increased aversion, she accused him of the crime, and as he disdained to vindicate his innocence, his hands were cut off as a punishment, but they were restored to him by JAGANNÁTH. The woman burnt herself on her husband's funeral pile, which SADHNÁ observing exclaimed: "No one knows the ways of women, she kills her husband, and becomes a Sati," which plirase has passed into a proverb. What peculiarity of doctrine he introduced amongst the Vaishuar'as of his tribe, is no where particularised.
Mádho is said to have been an ascetic, wlio founded an order of mendicants called Mudhurís: they are said to travel about always with a Saroda or Bulian, stringed instruments of the guitar kind, and to accompany their solicitations with song and music: they are rarely, if ever, to be met with, and their peculiarity of doctrine is not known. The founder appears to be the same with the MÁDHOJI of the Bhaktu Múló, who was an inhabitant of Guilógarh, but there are several celebrated ascetics of the same name, especially a Mádio Dás, a Brahman of Kanoj, who was a man of considerable learning, and spent some time in Orissa and Brinlávan. He was probably a follower of CHATTANYA.
SANNY ÍSÍS, VAIRÁGİS, &c. Much confusion prevails in speaking of the mendicant and monastic orders of the Hindus, by the indis
