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 220 Ram infant only two years old was put on the masnad under the guardianship of Earn Chand Pandit and regency of his mother, Tara, Baf. But when, after the death of ' Alamgfr, Eaja Sahii or Sahji II, was released from confine- ment, he was put aside, and Sahji was crowned at Sitara in March 1708 A. D. List of Bdjds. Eajas of Berar or Nagpur, I'ide Eaghoji Bhosla I. „ of Chittour and Nagpur, vide Eana Sanka or Maldeo Eao. „ of Gwaliar, vide Eanoji Scindhia. „ of Jaipur or Jainagar, vide Bihari Mai or Sandhal dewa. „ of Malwa or Indor of the Holkar family, vide Malhar Eao I. „ of Marwar or Jodhpur, vide Jodha Eao and Maldeo Eao. ,, of Bhartpur, vide Churaman Jat. „ of Sitara, vide Sahji. „ of Indor vide Malhar Eao Holkar I. Baj Indar Goshain, c^^j'-^^ j'^it cHef of a sect of Hindu ascetics who used to go about stark naked. He had under his command an army of those people, and was employed by Nawab Safdar Jang. He was killed in the battle fought by his employer against the emperor Ahmad Shah who had dismissed him from his ofiice of wizarat. His death took place on the 20th June, 1753 A. D., 17th Shaban, 1166 A. H. Raj Singh Kuchhwaha, Raja, ^*L>t?^ son of Eaja Askaran, brother of Eaja Bihari Mai. Served under the emperors Akbar and Jahangir, and died in the year 1615 A. D., 1024 A. H. Raj Singh, Rana, ^) ^bi of Chittour and Udaipur, succeeded his father Eana Jagat Singh 1652 A. D., 1062 A. H., and was honoured by the emperor Shah Jahan with the rank of 5000. In his time the fort of Chittour was demolished by order of the emperor 'Alamgfr. He died in the 24th year of that monarch, 1680 A. D., 1091 A. H., and was succeeded by his son Eana Jai Singh. Raju Kattal, iJ^' sumamed Sayyad Sado-uddin a Musalman saint and brother of Makhdum Jahanian Jahan Gasht Shaikh Jalal. He is the author of the " Tuhfat-un-Nasayeh," which contains much good advice though written according to the Sufi School. His tomb is at Uchcha in Multan where he died in the year 1403 A. D., 806 A. H. Rajwara, ^Jih'^bi name of a place at Agrah built by several Eajas, such as Eaja Jaswant Singh, Eaja Jai Singh, Eaja Man Singh, Eaja Bharath, Eaja Bohar Singh, Eaja Beattal Das son of Eaja Gopal Das, Eaja Dwarka Das and others, they built their house at Agrah at a place which is now called (Mauza Eajwara). Ramai or Rami, ^5'*^? Sharaf-uddfn Eami. Ram Charan Mahant, ^J'^ C^Jj the founder of the Eamsanehi sect, was a Eamawant Bairagi, born 1719 A. D. in a village in the principality of Jaipur. Neither the precise period, nor the causes which led him to abjure the religion of his fathers now appear : but he steadily denounced idol-worship, and sufi'ered on this account great persecution from the Brahmans. On quitting the place of his nativity in 1750 A. D., he wandered over the country, and eventually repaired to Bhilwara, in the Udaipur territory, where, after a residence of two years, Bhi'm Singh, Eana or prince of that state, was urged by the priests to harass him to a degree which compelled him to abandon the town. The chief of Shah- pfira offered the wanderer an asylum at his court, where he arrived in the year 1767 A. D., but he does not seem to have settled there permanently until two years later, from which time, it may be proper to date the institution of the sect. Eam Charan expired in April, 1798 A. D., in the 79th j'ear of his age, and his corpse was reduced to ashes in the great temple at Shahpura. Earn Charan composed 36,250 Sabds or hymns, each containing from five to eleveii verses. He was succeeded in the spiritual directorship by Eamjan, one of his twelve disciples. This person died at Shahpura in 1809 A. D. after a reign of 12 years 2 months and 6 days. He composed 18,000 Sabds. The third hierach Dulha Eam succeeded him and died in 1824 A. D. He wrote 10,000 Sabds, and about 4000 Saki, or epic poems, in praise of men eminent for virtue not only of his own faith, but among Hindus, Muham- madans and others. After him Chatra Das ascended the gaddi, and died in 1831 A. D. He is said to have composed 1000 Sabds, but would not permit their being committed to paper. Narayan Das the fourth in descent from Eam Charan, succeeded him and was living in 1835 A. D. See Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. 4, page 65. Ramdeo, Ji'^^b) a Eaja of Deogfr (now Daulatabad) became a tributary to Sultan 'Ala-uddin Sikandar Sanf, and died in the year 1310 A. D., 710 A. H. Ramin, a lover, the name of whose mistress was Waisa. Their story, entitled " Eamin and Waisa" has been written in Persian poetry by Nizami 'Uruzf. Ramjas Munshi, (*!; ij'^^, whose poetical name was Muln't, was a Khattri by caste, and his father Lala Ganga Bishun whose poetical title was 'Ajiz, resided at Labor, but Muhit was bom in Dehli. He obtained an apf>ointment in the Customs Department at Benares which gave him 1,200 rupees a year. He is the author of several Slasnawis, such as " Muhit -i-'Ishk," " Muhit -i-Dard," " Muhit -i-Gha'm," &c. He also translated some books on mysticism from the Sanskrit, as " Muhit-ul-Hakaik," " Muhit-ul-Asrar," " Gulshan-i-Ma'rifat," " Muhit Ma'ri- fat," &c. Ramji, LS^^b} son of Eaja Bhagwan Das the uncle of the celebrated Eaja Man Singh. He, together vsdth his two brothers, Bijai Eam and Sayam Earn, was crushed to death under the feet of an elephant by order of the em- peror Jahangir in the early part of his reign. Ram Mohan Rae, ssb ^^J^ fbj afterwards Eaja Earn Mohan Eae, a Brahman of a respectable family in Bengal, whose birth and mission are briefly stated in Maunder's Biograpihical Treasury, was early celebrated for his pre- cocious genius, high linguistic attainments, and other na- tural gifts which in his after-life procured for him the re- putation of a reformer. Among several other reforms, the degenerate state of Hinduism demanded his earliest attention, and he with his wonted zeal and assiduity, took upon himself to introduce a reform which at the risk of his purse and reputation, he succeeded in a great measure in affecting among his former co-religionists. His object was to reconstruct and varnish the old Hinduism, and not to abandon it altogether as some of the modern pseudo-reformers propose. He picked up morals and precepts from the Vedas, Dussanas and Upanishads, which he thought most appropriate and instructive ; but never accepted them as revelations. He likewise borrowed rules and precepts from other religions, but more par- ticularly from Christianity. His originality of mind, his natural logical powers, his mastery of mental and moral philosophy, and above all his ardent desire to establish the true knowledge of God among his countrymen, made him discard all the prevailing rehgions of the world as revelations. When in England, the Eaja always