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<p class="C1">&#65279KAU&#7692&#256 was, according to Janam S&#257kh&#299 accounts, the head of a clan of cannibals somewhere in Central India. The cannibals belonged to a sect of the <i>yog&#299s</i> called K&#257p&#257likas who went about naked, smeared their bodies with the ashes of a corpse and ate and drank from human skulls. Once as Gur&#363 N&#257nak was passing through that country, his faithful companion Mard&#257n&#257 separating from him fell into the hands of Kau&#7693&#257 the cannibal. He would have met the fate of many of his luckless victims in his ever-boiling oil-cauldron, but for Gur&#363 N&#257nak's timely appearance. The cauldron, says the <i>B&#257l&#257 Janam S&#257kh&#299</i>, cooled as Gur&#363 N&#257nak arrived and the fire underneath it died out. Kau&#7693&#257 fell at the Gur&#363's feet and begged to be shriven for his sinful ways.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	The legend of Kau&#7693&#257 appears in all the four major Janam S&#257kh&#299s, though the accounts differ in detail as well as in locale. The name Kau&#7693&#257 occurs only in the B&#257l&#257 version. In the folklore of the Go&#7751&#7693 tribe of Central India, Ko&#7693&#257 or Ko&#7693&#299 is the name of a demon who made the ancestor of the Go&#7751&#7693s, Li&#7749go, his prisoner. Li&#7749go escaped with the help of the demon's daughters whom he later married. The Go&#7751&#7693s are his descendants by them.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Santokh Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>. Amritsar, 1927-33<BR>
<li class="C1"> Kohl&#299, Surindar Si&#7749gh, ed., <i>Janams&#257kh&#299 Bh&#257&#299 B&#257l&#257</i>. Chandigarh, 1975<BR>
<li class="C1"> V&#299r Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, ed., <i>Pur&#257t&#257n Janam S&#257kh&#299</i>. Amritsar, 1982<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Gurnek Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR>
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