[Footnote 96:  Of the Kab[=i]r Panth[=i]s Wilson says:  “It is no part of their faith to worship any Hindu deity.”  A glance at the Dabist[=a]n will preclude the possibility of claiming much originality for the modern deism of India.  This work was written in 1645, and its Persian author describes, as a matter of every-day occurrence, religious debates between ‘Jews, Nazarines, Mussulmen, and Hindus,’ who meet more to criticise than to examine, but yet to hear explained in full the doctrines of their opponents, in just such tourneys of argument as we showed to be popular among the priests of the Upanishads and epic.  Speaking of the Vedas, the author says that every one derives from them arguments in favor of his own creed, whether it be philosophical, mystical, unitarian, atheistic, Judaic, or Christian.  Dabist[=a]n, vol.  II, p. 45.]

[Footnote 97:  Before election the Guru must be examined.  If the faithful are not satisfied, they may reject him. but, having elected him, they are bound to obey him implicitly.  He can excommunicate, but he may not punish corporally.  This deification of the Guru was retained by the Sikhs, and the office was made hereditary among them (by Arjun), till Govind, the tenth pontiff, who left no successor, declared that after his death the Granth (bible) should be the sole authority of the church.]

     [Footnote 98:  The ‘half’ contributor was a woman, and hence
     was not reckoned as a complete unit.]

     [Footnote 99:  The word Sikh means ‘disciple’ (of N[=a]nak). 
     The name the Sikhs assumed as a nation was Singhs
     (si[.m]has), ‘Lions of the Punj[=a]b.’]

     [Footnote 100:  The ‘true name,’ sat n[=a]m, is the
     appellation of God.]

     [Footnote 101:  JRAS. 1846, p. 43, Prinsep’s compilation
     (Wilson).  Compare Trumpp, ib.  V. 197 (1871); and
     [=A]digranth, 1877.]

     [Footnote 102:  This sect was founded by a descendant of
     N[=a]nak.]

     [Footnote 103:  It was not till Mohammedan persecution
     influenced them that the religious Sikhs of N[=a]nak became
     the political haters and fighters of Govind.]

[Footnote 104:  It is said that Govind sacrificed to Durg[=a] the life of one of his own disciples to prepare himself for his ministry.  Trumpp, [=A]digranth; Barth, p. 204.  The lives of the later Gurus will be found in Elphinstone’s history and Prinsep’s sketch (a resume by Barth, p. 248 ff.).]

     [Footnote 105:  With some small verbal alterations.]

[Footnote 106:  The conclusion of this extract shows the narrower polemic spirit:  “Pundits and Q[=a]z[=i]s are fools.  What avails it to collect a heap of books?  Let your minds freely meditate on the spirit of God.  Wear not away your lives by studying the Vedas.”]

[Footnote 107:  For the data of