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DÁDÚ PANTHIS. This class is one of the indirect ramifications of the Rámánandi stock, and is always included amongst the Vaishnava schisms: its founder is said to have been a pupil of one of the Kabir Panthi teachers, and to be the fifth in descent from RÁMÁNAND, according to the following genealogy:1. Kabir.
4. Vimal. 2. Kumál.
5. Buddhan. 3. Jamál.
6. Dádu. The worship is addressed to Ráma, but it is restricted to the Japa, or repetition of his name, and the Ráma intended is the deity, as negatively described in the Vedánta theology: temples and images are prohibited.
Dádú was a cotton cleaner by profession: he was born at Ahmeılúbád, but in his twelfth year removed to Sambhur, in Ajmír: he thence travelled to Kalyánpur, and next removed to Naraina, in his thirtyseventh year, a place four cos from Sambhur, and twenty from Jaypur. When here, he was admonished, by a voice from heaven, to addict himself to a religious life, and he accordingly retired to Bahcrana mountain, five cos from Naraina, where, after some time, he disappeared, and no traces of him could be found. His followers believe he was absorbed into the deity. If the list of his religious descent be accurate, he flourished about the year 1600, at the end of Akbar's reign, or in the beginning of that of Jehángir. The followers of Dádu wear no peculiar frontal mark
