BOMBAY-SOJAT ROAD-KASARAGOD 457 of friends of those places. He was eager to see the Punjab and Kashmir. So he suggested that Eamdas should start again for the North and that he would keep him company. Ramdas agreed with him. Once more there was a flutter amongst Kasaragod devotees. They laid all the responsibi- lity for this tour on the shoulders of Janardan Pant and roundly took him to task for it. This attack on him was the first of its kind, as he had to face worse music in the course of his travels with Ramdas.