MADARIA.-One of the four Tafuria sects founded in Asia Minor by Badiu-d din Rustami surnamed Zinda Shah Madar. The Madaria is in four subdivisions,-1 Diwangan, 2 Talban, 3 Ashkan, and 4 Khadman. Some of the fakirs are jugglers, or take about bears, monkeys, &c, from place to place; while others go about playing on a fiddle and singing in praise of Shah Madar. The Madaria do not shave their beard and moustaches on being initiated; and when any person has gained the object of his desires, he invites the fakirs of this order to perform a ceremony called dhammal Those who allow their hair to grow are called malang, and adopt celibacy like their preceptor.
About H. 1000 Shah Gul Husain, also called Sir Mur Ganj Lashkar,and Shah Daud Ganj Lashkar Maghrobi,two Madaria fakirs, came to Roza and Aurangabad respectively, to propagate the tenets of their order. Sir Mur Ganj’s tomb is near the ” Nakhar Khana” gate of Roza; and Sultan Saiad Shah “Nur, one of his kaliphs, was buried near the Pangri gate. Zabarak Ali Shah another kaliph was taken by H. H. Nizam ‘Ali Khan to Haidarabad, but he subsequently returned to Roza where he died, and was buried near the Chauk. Shah Daud Ganj Lashkar Maghrobi introduced the suborder Diwangdn into Aurangabad. His tomb stands near the “tekkieh” called ” Til-ki-Mundi.”
There are “astanas” and ” tekkiehs” at Sangwi, Salaikaon, Dhamori, Borgaon, and Lasura in the Gandapur taluk; at Kandalla in the Baizapur taluk; and at Roza, inhabited by one or more fakirs of the Khadman subdivision; while Salal Ghogargaon and other villages contain ” tekkiehs” of the Diwangdn subdivision. The Talban sect is not represented.
Chingi Shah came about a hundred years ago to ‘Ambad, and introduced the Ashkan subdivision. Joat ‘Ali the Sain, also of this subdivision, came from northern India and died at Debgaon Murmi in the Gandapur taluk in H. 1275. He was accompanied by a Hindu ascetic, who retired to Kaigaon Toka; and was himself a Kanoja Brahman, but was subsequently converted. Joat ‘Ali was also called ” Malang Shall Maharaja,” and was in great repute among Hindus and Mahomedans.
