DADU PANTHIS. The Dadu Panthi sect of western India (following Dadu's path) founded by Dadu about the year 160o, has many followers in Ajmir and Marwar, one section of whom, the Nagas, engage largely in military service, while the others are either householders or mendicants. The followers of this creed wear no distinctive sectarial mark or badge except a skull-cap; nor do they worship the N isible image of any deity, the repetition (japa) of the name of Rama being the only kind of adoration prac tised by them.