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8. Mangala, 100 short poems, amongst which is the account of KABIR's discovery as given above. 9. Vasant, 100 hymns in that Rága.
10. Holi, 200 of the songs called Holi. 11. Rekhtas, 100 odes.
OF THE HINDUS.
12. Jhúlanas, 500 odes, in a different style. 13. Kaháras, 500 odes, in a different style. 14. Hindolas, 12 ditto ditto. The subject of all these odes, or hymns, is always moral or religious.
15. Bárah Mása, the 12 months in a religious view, agreeably to KABÍR's system.
16. Chancharas 22.
17. Chautisas 2: the 34 letters of the Nagari alphabet, with their religious signification.
18. Alefnámah, the Persian alphabet in the same
manner.
19. Ramainis, short doctrinal or argumentative poems.
Sakhis 5,000, these may be considered as texts, consisting of one stanza each.
20. The Bijak, in 654 Sections1.
There are two Bijaks, however, only differing in the occasional omission of some passages and introduction of others; the longer of the two, they say, was communicated by KABIR himself to the Rájá of Benares. I rather suspect, however, that the varieties are only those common to most Hindu Manuscripts, and that many more than two varieties are to be found. A curious Italian work on the Kabir Panthis, entitled, but not accurately, Mulapanci, intending no doubt Múlapanthi, or Radical disciple, not as rendered, Della Radice, is published in the third volume of the Mines of the East: it was found amongst the papers
