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SKETCH OF THE 



Gorakh by five spiritual descents,* and this would place the former in 

 the 14th century, supposing the Kabir work to be correct in the date it 

 attributes to the latter. 



If the date assigned by Hamilton to the migration of the Hindu 

 tribes from Chitaur, the beginning of the 14th century, be accurate,! it is 

 probable that this was the period at which the worship of Siva, agreeably 

 to the doctrines of Matsyendra, or Gorakh, was introduced there, and 

 into the eastern provinces of Hindustan. 



The temple of Gorakhnath at Gorakhpur, according to the local 

 tradition, was founded by Siva in the second, or Treta age. Of its revolu- 



* The list of teachers is thus particularised : 



1. Adindth. 



2. Matsyendra. 



3. Sambara. 



4. Ananda. 



5. Bhairava. 



6. Chour&ngi. 



7. Mena. 



8. Goraksha. 



9. Virupaksha. 



10. Vilesa. 



11. Manthana Bhairava. 



1 2. Siddkabuddha. 



13. Kantliada. 



14. Paurandaka. 



15. Sur&nanda. 



16. Siddhapdda. 



The author of the Hatha Pradipa, Atma Rama, states that these and many more Mahasid* 

 dhas, or perfect Yogis, are in existence. His names are possibly those of the Mahants, of a particu- 

 lar establishment : some of them are very unlike Hindu appellatives. If the date assigned to Gorak~ 

 ndth in the text be rightly conjectured, we cannot assign much more than fifteen years to each of his 

 successors. 



17. Chiirpati. 



18. Kdneri. 



19. Pujijapa'la. 



20. Nityanutha. 



21. Niranjana. 



22. Kapdla. 



23. Bindu. 



24. Kdkachandiswara. 



25. Allamd. 



26. Prabhudeva. 



27. Gordchili. 



28. Dindima. 



29. Bhdluki. 



30. Nagabodha. 



31. Cha?idakapdlika. 



f Hamilton's Nepal, page 14. 



