1 HISTORY OF RUNJEET SINGES FAMILY. 3
2 and industry, he, after some time, obtained possession of several
3 small plots of ground, by the cultivation of which he maintain-
4 ed himself and his family. This is supposed to be the
5 person who is called by the people of the country and by
6 the Sansees, Ramthull, i. e. a person devoted to God, otherwise
7 a good and peaceable man. Kiddoh died about the year 1578,
8 leaving two sons, Rajadah and Prenoo. Rajadah having learned
9 to read and write, Goormuckka or Loondee, not only pursued
10 the labours of the field but kept a small shop in Sukerchuck j
11 and is said even to have travelled about the neighbouring
12 country selling salt, tobacco, &c. &c. This Rajadah died about
13 1620, leaving three sons, Thelloo, Thuckt, (otherwise Thuckt
14 Mull,) and Neeloo. Thelloo and Neeloo were killed together in
15 a fray near their own village while yet but lads. Thuckt
16 Mull, however, lived to extend the small estate left by his
17 father, and likewise scraped together a small fortune by shop-
18 keeping and money-lending. He also purchased the leases of
19 many small plots of ground about Sukerchuck and Keallee,
20 and must thus have become a man of some influence and impor-
21 tance in the neighbourhood. He died about 1653, leaving two
22 sons, Boloo and Bara, afterwards called from his fanatical dis-
23 position Bii Bara. Boloo at the age of nine or ten left his
24 home, and joining a camp of wandering predatory Sansees,
25 was killed at the age of eighteen in a night attack upon a
26 village. Bii Bara, though assuming the character of a religious
27 fanatic, had the tact and policy to advance his own worldly
28 interests, and became sole possessor of nearly half the lands
29 in Sukerchuck, or about two wells. He obtained the designa-
30 tion of Bii on becoming the chelah or disciple of a Sing' or
31 Seik in Gujerawalla, who taught him to read the Grunth or Holy
32 Book of Baba Nanuk; and about the age of twenty-five he
33 set out for Umritsir to receive the Pahul and become a Seik-
34 But some accident having happened to him on the road he