History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c13.95

c13.95

⁵² Macauliffe. The Sikh Religion, VI, pp. 26-27. In Nabhāji's *Bhaktmāla* an authoritative work of the Vaisnava sect the date of Nama Deva is given 1488 A.D. *Bhaktmāla*, Nawal Kishore Press Edition, p. 308. But Dr. Bhandārkar fixes 1270 A.D. as the date of his birth. In either case he could not have lived in the time of Muhammad Tughluq. Bhandārkar, Vaisnavism, Saivism, p. 89. See also Ranade's Indian Mysticism.