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² The songs of Lalla have been rendered into English by R. C. Temple. The text with translation was published by Grierson and Barnett. Nanak's songs and hymns have been incorporated in the Granth Sahib, the sacred book of the Sikhs, and are to be found in an English rendering in the first volume of Macauliffe's 'The Sikh Religion;. The Bijak of Kabir is now available in a careful English translation by Rev Ahmad Shah. The songs of Vidyapati—the Padavali Bangiya (which, as opposed to his Sanskrit book referred to earlier, is composed in his native Maithili)—were translated and published by Coomaraswami and Arun Sen. His peculiarity lies in being a Krishnite and in singing of the loves of Radha and Krishna. Chaitanya was not so fortunate as to have left a collection of songs but the contemporary biography of Das Kaviraj, completed in 1582 after many years of devoted labour, is a document of great historical value. The second part of this biography which deals with six years of Chaitanya's pilgrimages is available in the English translation of J. N. Sircar. The account of his wanderings introduces us to the hopes and fears of the common people and to the gradual assimilation by Muslims of Hindu ideas.