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4 him a high place among them. He became a
5 teacher iit the early age of eleven years, and had
6 followers'; among the rest, Murdana, a musician,
7 who afterwards attended him in his travels, and
8 irofe being a Mussulman, became a convert to the
9 tenbts of Nanuk. Two others of his followers are
10 celebrated: the one named Boodha, and the other
11 telina. To these Nanuk taught his doctrines,
12 which were those of pure Deism.
13 Nanuk endeavoured B to conciliate, or reconcile,
14 both Hindoos and Mussulmans, by forbidding the
15 former to worship images and idols ; while he de¬
16 precated the intolerance of the Mussulmans to the J /
17 Hindoos; and above all, forbade the slaughter off
18 the cow, an offence which is to this day visited by
19 the severest punishment among the Sikhs—the loss
20 of life being often the penalty incurred for killing
21 the animal.
22 The precepts of Nanuk were those of peace His peaceful
23 with all mankind; and he inculcated an abhor¬
24 rence of war among people believing in God, on
25 whom his firm reliance was placed for every thing;
26 fold acting on this principle, he was regardless of
27 wordly matters, and divided every thing lie had
28 with his fellow-creatures.
29 On the whole, Nanuk’s tenets evince a zealous
30 desire to remove all the abuses and idolatries of
31 the Hindoos, and the intolerance of the Mussul¬
32 mans.
33 Nanuk’s time was spent in offering praises to
34 God in poetical effusions; and he made no dis¬
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