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2 "■ Ott the death, of 'Ungut, Unimilr Doss succeeded Succeeds
3 He vvas a wise and just Gooroo, and resided ,Ja ° ut
4 a t ; his native village of Goviridwal, and there built
5 a lhaoulee, or large well with a shelter for travellers*
6 Oa' this he spent large sums of money, as the water
7 Wa,' 3 at a great depth; He had numerous disciples,
8 an< 1 from amongst them he chose twenty-two,
9 Whkrai he sent to different parts of the country.
10 •jVhifcolm in his sketch of the Sikhs, mentions, that
11 Um *msr Doss built Kujtti&wal, and separated the'
12 Oppiasee sect from the regular Sikhs: this sect was
13 fouhlded hy Sree Chund, the son of Nanuk.
14 = Ti ns Gooroo had a son named Mohun, and a
15 daughter named Mohunee, more commonly called
16 Bhaif* ee " After reigning as Gooroo for the space
17 of tw^ty-two years, five months, and eleven days,
18 UmmfW Doss died at the village of Govindwal on
19 the {1th May, in the year of the Ilijera 999, a.o.
20 {§ 75 y and Bik. J632„ His tomb was erected at
21 Govimlwal, but has Hince been washed away by the
22 river* Ram Dass, who succeeded Umraur Doss,
23 was <# first of the Sodee Gooroos. When Umrnur
24 Doss w as building his baoulee, a great number of
25 masons and other workmen were employed, and
26 vast crC' w d s used to collect to witness the progress
27 ofthew °rk; amongst the rest Ram Dass, of the History of
28 Chuttrec- caste and Sodee family, a lineal descend- sodee.
29 ant of t’lodee Rao, who abdicated the throne of
30 Lahore l n favour of his Uncle Kulput (Bedee.)
31 The boy had come with his mother from Lahore to
32 the Beas, nnd employed himself in selling various
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