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2 III
3 tiai cults.
4 149
5 The Balaliar gots are :—
6 Bawalna.
7 Babla.
8 Gondla.
9 Indauria.
10 Khariri.
11 Kkarkte.
12 Kakarni.
13 Mahur.
14 Nadania.
15 Pharband, etc.
16 The Bargis make dona and card cotton.
17 Hospitality to any stranger is incumbent on the Ndfs.
18 The cult of Sain Bliagat,
19 llie cults of the Ndis are in essentials much like those of the other
20 aitisan castes. In Hissfir the Hindu Ndis both of the Banbheru and
21 Gola sub-castes worship Shin Bhagat, who has a great temple at
22 Blmwani. Originally a Banbheru, Shin used to wait daily on the ruler
23 of the state,* but one day he was busy in entertaining faqirs and could
24 not go to the palace, so Bhagwan assumed his formf and attended to the
25 king, whose leprosy was cured by his touch. Since then Shin has
26 been the bhagat or saint of the barbers. One of the/agtrs, his guests,
27 further bade him ask for anything he desired, so Shin begged that a
28 refectory might be opened among his caste-fellows iu his name, whence
29 the proverb : Sain bhagat ki hari, Bhuki rahe na aghari.
30 Another temple of Shin Bhagat is said to exist at Lahore
31 contains his tomb and pilgrimages are made to it iu Jeth.
32 It
33 Shin also has a dera at Parthbpura in the Phillaur tahsil of Jullundur t
34 where the Diwhh is the day specially set apart to him. Once it is
35 said, boys in play put some bricks in a field and asked what they
36 were. ‘ It is the dera,’ came the reply, and in answer to their question
37 whose dera ? came the response, ‘ Bhbh Shin BhagatV The -nlW rs
38 removed the bricks, but the Bhagat constrained the offender^ to
39 construct his dera on the very spot where the boys had placed the
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43 ip
44 ■ «* tk.l Siin ,7 .
45 H‘ r m • ' H“ lee*“ “ "»•!<
46 deities’ emblems, one that of the goddess another that of
47 n h ?h I 0.1,0 tbe!r ancestral
48 flag bore the image of Sain Bhagat. I n a l l the
49 the, m bo?’s
50 tho N&f boy found himself rooted to the spot where ho h-ul m °«S
51 .^omes» but
52 morning the villagers assembled and the lad declaring he
53 m£ht’ Nf®xt
54 bade them build him a shrine on the spot. From
55 1
56 s incaiDaticm
57 this day. They only marry among themselves m a ? nn 1 ts ^ gans aro chosen t0
58 near Nur Mahal in Jullundur' and says that a grand fair i| “iaetL accou^ Plac.e?. P « « b{'“ r
59 The pujaris of this temple are barhm-s Ti
60 ls • d there on the Bhai Duj day.
61 Granth (the religious book of the Sikhs! ’ StiS ii ' l ™ lm!lge of Sain Bbagat as well as a
62 Muhammadans Many bles me old of t i l l| agat “ worshipped both by Hindus and
63 field and placed 7ome bricks n it t L I ,shT ’ 0n“ some boys were playing in a
64 Md V W a X f f J ? S o J vu Pla-Vmate3 ask®d who they were and were
65 camo upon them and forced them to
66 r*raoved tho bricks, but the saintly BAb*
67 worshipped on the Diw li h'nnrt k .ffT5* Ws dera on that very spot. He is specially
68 who is elected hv the Kn'c Inn i r
69 dai,M distributed at his shrine by the mahant,
70 income of the
71 rernmn cehbal , and gets Its. 10 a month out of the
72 ^ w up, she will d^nm lnet' T 3,ua woman will vow that if she has sobs, who live to
73 first claim on theTflw f w ° s° ? cra\ Tho first-born is usually offered and ho has tho
74 mahant, T]10 ofl wTs not
75 ls at, presentthe successor designate of the
76 of a dedicated boy for
77 aa4.RPParently it, is elective, in spite of the claims
78 and character and’pdite rimun is be appomte<i “ d the candidate must bo of good temper