Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis (Gorakhnāth and the Kānphaṭa Yogīs)
Nātha sect: legends of Gorakhnāth, sub-orders, monasteries, rituals and ethnography; haṭha-yoga doctrines and texts.
- Language
- English
- Author
- George Weston Briggs
- Extent
- 3,378 passages, 137,245 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Religious Life of India series, Calcutta: YMCA 1938; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters… · In copyright (George Weston Briggs †1966); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 34 parts
- c2 Editorial Preface — 14 parts
- c3 Preface — 25 parts
- c4 Table of Contents — 10 parts
- c5 Chapter One: Gorakhnāthīs — 221 parts
- c6 Chapter Two: The Order — 158 parts
- c7 Chapter Three — 109 parts
- c8 Chapter Four: Divisions of the Order — 108 parts
- c9 Chapter Five — 133 parts
- c10 Chapter Six: Sacred Places (Concluded) — 198 parts
- c11 Chapter Seven: Religion and Superstition — 197 parts
- c12 Chapter Eight: The Pantheon — 209 parts
- c13 Chapter Nine: Legend — 356 parts
- c14 Chapter Ten: The Forerunners of the Gorakhnāthīs — 171 parts
- c15 Chapter Eleven: Gorakhnāth — 217 parts
- c16 Chapter Twelve: The Literature — 42 parts
- c17 Chapter Thirteen: Yoga and Tantra — 194 parts
- c18 Chapter Fourteen: The Gorakṣa Śataka — 290 parts
- c19 Chapter Fifteen: More Important Physiological Concepts — 145 parts
- c20 Chapter Sixteen: Chief Aims and Methods — 233 parts
- c21 Chapter Seventeen: Conclusion — 22 parts
- c22 Glossary — 47 parts
- c23 Bibliography — 8 parts
- c24 Plates — 25 parts
- c25 Index — 45 parts