On being asked the name of the Mahatma, he said to our unbounded
surprise, "They are called Koothum-pa." Being cross-examined and asked
what he meant by "they," and whether he was naming one man or many, he
replied that the Koothum-pas were many, but there was only one man or
chief over them of that name; the disciples being always called after
the names of their guru. Hence the name of the latter being Koot-hum,
that of his disciples was "Koot-hum-pa." Light was shed upon this
explanation by a Tibetan dictionary, where we found that the word "pa"
means "man;" "Bod-pa" is a "man of Bod or Thibet," &c. Similarly
Koothum-pa means man or disciple of Koothoom or Koothoomi. At Giansi,
the pedlar said, the richest merchant of the place went to the Mahatma,
who had stopped to rest in the midst of an extensive field, and asked
him to bless him by coming to his house. The Mahatma replied, he was
better where he was, as he had to bless the whole world, and not any
particular man. The people, and among them our friend Sundook, took
their offerings to the Mahatma, but he ordered them to be distributed
among the poor.
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