Religious poems concerning other minor or less known panthas and sampradaya are also popular amongst people in Rajasthan. One such panth is Ai Panth, the followers of which are mostly the persons of Siravi caste, who thickly inhabit Pali and Jodhpur regions and certain parts of Madhya Pradesh. The main temple of Aiji is at Bilada in Jodhpur. It is a Sakta panth. Jiji Devi (Aiji) is said to be the daughter of Vika, a Rajput of Dabi gotra. She flourished in the 15th century and breathed her last in 1504. She is believed to be the Shakti or Durga Incarnate. The Ai panthis refrain from all sorts of intoxicants and meat-eating.
Jiji Devi herself entrusted her Gaddi to her disciple named Goyand in 1500 by initiating him into all the tenets of the panth. This may be taken as the date of the Ai Panth`s origin.
Bhawanidas Vyas of Jodhpur has narrated lucidly in easy Rajasthani the life of Aiji and the salient features of the panth, in his Ai Anad Vilas composed in 1736. It consists of 603 verses including doha, soratha, chand, kavitt, candrayan, bhu-jaiigi, caupai, nisani, jhamal, haran kala and prose vartas. This is deemed to be a sacred book in the panth.
Tarachand Vyas of Bilada composed Ai Ugra Prakas, which likewise tells the story of Aiji`s life with a brief history of the parith, in a straight and simple way, in easy Rajasthani. Doha, soratha, chappay, chand, paddhari, tribhangi etc have used metres in their style.
Both the books serve as important source of information about Aiji and Ai Panth.
Many other poems, including Ai Mata ri Vel and stray verses by Lumba Baba and others are popular in the panth.
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