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the Jangamas, in the cap ; all classes and sects assume the character, and 

 Musselman Jogis are not uncommon. One class of the Hindu Jogis 

 is called Saringihcir , from their carrying a Saringi, or small iiddle or lute, 

 with which they accompany their songs : these are usually Bhdsha stan- 

 zas on religious or mythological topics, amongst which, stanzas ascribed 

 to Bhatrihari, and a Pauranic legend of the marriage of Siva and PAr- 

 v ati, are particularly celebrated. The Saringihars beg in the name of Bhai- 

 rava : another sect of them, also followers of that deity, are termed Diiri- 

 hdrs, from their trafficking in small pedlary, especially the sale of thread 

 and silk, to the housewives of the villages ; another class adopt the name 

 of Matsyendris, or Macchendris, from Matsyendra, whom they regard as 

 their founder ; and a fourth set are Bhartriharis, from a traditional refer- 

 ence to him as the insti tutor of this particular order. The varieties of this 

 class of mendicants, however, cannot be specified : they are all errants ; 

 fixed residences, or Maths, of any Jogis, except the Kanphatas, rarely oc- 

 curring : an observation that will apply to, perhaps, all the Saiva sects, of 

 whom it yet remains to give an account. 



JANGAMAS. 



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The worship of Siva, under the type of the Linga, it has been ob- 

 served, is almost the only form in which that deity is reverenced.* It is 



" In a well-governed and well-regulated country, fertile and prosperous, the Hatha Yogi (he 

 who upholds the world in eternal continuity,) should reside in a solitary cell, within the precincts 

 of a Math." '• Other directions follow, applicable to most establishments of a similar nature. 

 The cell should have a small door, be neither too lofty, nor too low, be well smeared with cow-dung, 

 and should be kept clean and free from reptiles : the Math should have a temple, a mound or altar, 

 and a well, adjoining, and be enclosed by a wall. 



* Its prevalence throughout the whole tract of the Ganges, as far as Benares, is sufficiently 

 conspicuous. Io Bengal, the temples are commonly erected in a range of six, eight, or twelve, on each 

 side of a Ghat, leading to the river. At Kalna is a circular groupe of one hundred and eight temples, 



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