1 32 HISTORY OP THE SIKIIS.
2 of Rhaypore. In the account of the birth of
3 Naauk it is called Tflwundy-rae-malar, meaning
4 “ wisdom and wealth/’ and the change to Raepore
5 was probably given to indicate the “ city of
6 wisdom,” from the circumstance of Nanuk haying
7 been supposed to have been born there, or at least
8 of his father being an inhabitant of the village.
9 Miraculous For a long' time after his marriage, Kulloo had
10 story connect- . , , /• i v .
11 ed with it. no children, and became a tukeer, or religious
12 mendicant. It so happened that one day another
13 fukeer came to Kulloo’s hut, and partook of some
14 food. Kulloo no doubt told his story to his guest,
15 for no sooner had the latter finished his meal, than
16 he ordered the fragments to he carried to Kuiloo’s
17 wife, who, he said, would conceive, and her son be
18 a great man. After she had ate of the food, the
19 fukeers prophecy was fulfilled, and on her father
20 hearing the glad tidings, he sent for his daugh ter to
21 ] the village of Ma ree. which is near Kot Kutchwa,
22 * and here Nanuk was bom.
23 Tilwundy cannot therefore claim the honour of
24 being the birthplace of Nanuk, As to the miracu¬
25 lous part of the story, it deserves but little notice,
26 and was probably composed at some afterperiod,
27 to impart a degree of sanctity to the Gooroo.
28 After the fulfilment of the fukeer’s prophecy,
29 Kulloo returned to Tilwundee, and resumed his
30 occupation as a merchant, though his wife probably
31 remained with her father, and had a daughter
32 named Nanukee, who married a Hindoo in the ser-