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should be at least internally called sdhib seems admitted as also that God is the motive of evil as well as of good. Sattnamis seem steadily to observe teohdrs ( festivals ) of their Hindu brethren. Their special ones at Kotwa have been attended to. The usual ceremonies as to Prasdd, &c., are gone through. Family customs are strictly kept up, i. e., correspond The kanthi (necklace) is to the caste to which the Sattnami belongs. the mark of the Chamdr Bhagat. It has nothing whatever to do with the Sattnami. The distinctive mark of the latter is the dndu, or black or white twisted thread, generally of silk, worn on the right wrist. The fullblown Mahant wears an andu on each wrist and each ancle. Mahants of lower degree wear the ^ndu on each wrist, but not on the ancles.

A regular Mahant can only be

appointed by the full bench of Mahants above recorded, exclusive of the

(at present said to consist of the fourteen

Kalu Mahant

at Kotwa).

The tilak, as noted above, is one black perpendicular streak. Marriage customs are those of the family to which the Sattnami may belong. There he is professedly looked on as a father. In is no pardah for the Gurii death family customs are observed. The ascetism of the true Sattnami is only partially imitated by his followers. It is curious that the preceptor of Jagjiwan Das was a Goshdin worshipper of Shiva, whilst the Sattnami doctrines are essentially those of the sect of Vaishnavi. The one traces back to the old aboriginal worship, the other to that of the intellectual,

self-contemplating Aryans.

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DA'UDPUR—Pargana Patti

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Tahsil Patti DistricfPARTABGARH. Daud Khan, the Governor of Allahabad, founded this town on the road from Patti

The river Sai flows four miles to the west it is sixteen miles This afterwards was the fort of Pirthipal Singh, taluqdar he Daiid Khan was a Bhar, who, when his clan was perkilled the qanungo. secuted by AUa-ud-dln Ghori, became a Musalman and got twelve villages. The Basraha, a sub-clan of the Bachgotis, then seized the place. In 1186 F., Amir Singh the ancestor of the Patti taluqdars, acquired possession. to Surhera. from Bela.

The population





is

354.

DAUNDIA KHERA Pargana— Tahsil Purwa—District

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Unao. In connection with the history of this pargana, it is necessary to give an account of the Bais clan of Chhattris, for they subdued the old reigning tribe of Rajbhars and brought the whole country into their possession.

The Bais are descended from Raja Salbahan, who, it is said, issued from the womb of an unmarried daughter of a Banian by a miracle of Sheshji. This r^ja was so fortunate that he overcame the mighty Raja Bikramajit of Ujjain, and fixed his own era called Saka, which is still reckoned in the calendars. This year is 1793 of Salbahan's Sdka. His descendants, having traced their origin to the Banian's daughter, are thence termed Bais! In 1191 Sambat of Bikramajit, two brothers. Raja Abhai Chand and Pirthi Chand, twelfth in descent from Silbahan, came on a bathing ceremony to the Ganges at the Shiurajpur Ghat, to which place also came the wife of the Raja of Argal, accompanied by a few attendants and a small number of soldiers.

The governor

of the place, wishing for

an immoral purpose to