===============+========+=============+======== Districts. | Hindus.| Muhammadans.| Total. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~ Sahâranpur | ... | 5 | 5 Mathura | ... | 1 | 1 Etâwah | ... | 65 | 65 Shâhjahânpur | 32 | ... | 32 Pilibhît | 83 | ... | 83 Cawnpur | 53 | ... | 53 Fatehpur | 5 | 21 | 26 Hamîrpur | ... | 5 | 5 Allahâbâd | 41 | 10 | 51 Jâlaun | ... | 16 | 16 Ghâzipur | 132 | ... | 132 Ballia | 230 | ... | 230 Gorakhpur | 330 | ... | 330 Basti | 88 | ... | 88 Azamgarh | 223 | ... | 223 Kheri | 76 | ... | 76 Gonda | ... | 6 | 6 Bahrâich | 60 | ... | 60 +~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~ Total | 1,353 | 129 | 1,482 ===============+========+=============+======== Dâdupanthi.—A Vaishnava sect which derives its name from Dâdu, a Dhuniya or cotton-carder by caste, who died in 1703 A.D. He was, according to popular belief, a direct successor of Râmanand, and the line of descent is given—Râmanand, Kabîr, Kamâl, Jamâl, Budhdhan, and Dâdu. Dâdu was born at Ahmadâbâd, in Gujarât, and at the age of twelve migrated to Sambhar, and then to a place called Naraina, about fifty miles south-west of Jaypur. There, at the age of thirty-seven, a voice from heaven enjoined him to renounce the world and pass his life in doing good to mankind and in devotion. His biographer, Jân Gopâl, in a biography containing 2,864 lines, describes how he spent his life in the country between Ahmadâbâd, Delhi and Agra, teaching, discussing, and making many disciples. He seems to have lived a good deal at Amber, the old capital of Jaypur. He had frequent interviews with the Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri, and some wonderful stories are told of his miracles and adventures there. Finally in the neighbourhood of Naraina he was absorbed into the godhead in 1603 A.D. He is said to have had fifty-two disciples who spread his doctrines through Râjputâna and the neighbouring Provinces. The chief of these were Rajab, Gharîb Dâs, and Sundar Dâs, and others also are named, such as Jaisa, Prayâg Dâs, Bakhnagi, Sankar Dâs, Bâba Sânwari Dâs, and Mâdho Dâs. Of these Rajab, the first disciple of Dâdu, was a Musalmân, and his Hindu followers are sometimes known by the name Uttarâdhi, as distinguished from the Nâga, who are Hindus. The latter take their name from the Sanskrit nagnaka, “a naked ascetic.”