Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c10.151

c10.151

But it seems that Dhinodhar was a famous place when Dharamnāth took up his abode there. He came to Kacch from Peshāwar about 1382.¹ Still earlier it was known to Pīr Pathāo whose death is said to have taken place in 1209. The story is connected with the manner in which Pīr Pathāo gained possession of the cave at Pīr Arr, in Sind. This he achieved with the assistance of Gorakhnāth. A sādhu, Dayanāth, lived in this cave. The account of the amazing things that this man did in the presence of Gorakhnāth, who came to the help of Pīr Pathāo, contains elements that appeared later in the story of Dharamnāth. When Gorakhnāth came to Pīr Arr, in Sind, Dayanāth learned of it by supernatural sight. He became very angry and threw the hill into the sky and set it on fire by a breath. Then he departed to Dhinodhar Hill in Kacch. Pīr Pathāo went to Gorakhnāth and reproached him, saying, ‘You are sitting here while Dayanāth has set the hill on fire and bolted.’ The guru looked and saw that a fire was indeed burning between heaven and earth. But, as he was *looking*, the fire was extinguished and the hill dropped and cracked in two. Guru Gorakhnāth then perceived that Dayanāth was praying on Dhinodhar Hill, standing on his head on a betel-nut, and knew that after twelve months of austerity in this position, he could by breathing thrice blast all Sind. Thereupon Gorakhnāth extended his hand, although no one could observe this action, and seizing Dayanāth by the ear, brought him back to Pīr Arr. He then said to Dayanāth, ‘Don’t trouble the people. I promise you this blessing, that you and your successors shall never lack good horses and white clothes.’ He then made him his disciple, split his ear, put an ivory ornament in it, and, placing a turban made of black thread on his head, sent him back to Dhinodhar.²