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 also exist a temple and religious establishment of his followers. They 



hold also in veneration a plain near Dwdraka, named Gorakhlchetr ; and a 



cavern or subterraneous passage at Haridwdr. The Saiva temples of 



Nepal, those of Sambundth, Pasupatmdth, and others, belong to the same 



system, although local legends attached to them, have combined in a 



curious manner the fictions of the Bauddha with those of the Brahmanical 



mythology.* 



From a Ghoshti,]' or controversial dialogue between Kabir and Gorakh- 

 nath, it would seem that they were personally known to each other, but 

 various texts in the Bijek allude to him as if recently deceased. In either 

 case these two teachers may have been cotemporaries, or nearly so, and 

 the latter therefore flourished in the beginning of the 15th century. Ac- 

 cording to his followers, he was an incarnation of Siva; but in the contro- 

 versial tract above named, he calls himself the son of Matsyendra Nath, 

 and grandson of Adinath. \ Matsyendra Nath appears to have been 

 the individual who introduced the Yoga Saivism into Nepal : one of the 

 works of the sect, the Hatha Pradipa, makes Matsyendra prior to 



* See Asiatic Researches, vol. XVI. page 471, and Note. 



+ This has been printed in the first volume of Hindee and Hindustani Selections, for the use 

 of the Interpreters of the Bengal Army, compiled by Captain Price. The discussion, in the form 

 of a dialogue, occurs page 140. 



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