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former they occupy a suburb called Sádhwára, and are more numerous there than in any other town; their numbers are estimated at two thousand. There are said to be some at Mirzapore, and a few more to the South; their numbers, however, are limited, and they are chiefly from the lower classes.
The sect originated in the year of VIKRAMÁDITYA 1714 (A. D. 1658), according to Mr. TRANT, with a person named Bindhán, who received a miraculous communication from one UDAYA Dás, and in consequence taught the Sádh doctrines. Mr. FISHER calls Birehán the disciple of Jogi Dás, who commanding a body of troops in the service of the Rájá of Dholpur was left as slain on the field of battle, but restored to life by a stranger in the guise of a mendicant, who carried him to a mountain, taught him the tenets of the faith, and having bestowed upon him the power of working miracles sent him to disseminate his doctrines. These circumstances are rather obscurely alluded to in the original authorities consulted on the present occasion, but they agree with the above in considering Birbhán an inhabitant of Brijhasir, near Nárnaul, in the province of Dehli, as the founder of the sect, at the date above mentioned. Birbhán received his knowledge from the SAT GURU, the pure teacher', also called Úda ká Dás, the servant of the one God, and particularly described as the Málek ká Hukm, the order of the Creator, the personified word of God.
The doctrines taught by the super-human instructor of BirbhÁN were communicated in Sabdas and Sukhis,
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