Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c10.3
Gorakhnāth and the Kānphaṭa Yogīs c10.3
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c10.3
Besides the important monastery at Gorakh Ṭilla, there are a good many places in the Panjab connected with the Gorakhnāthīs. GORAKHṢETRA, or Gorkhaṭri, in Peshāwar was once a haunt of Kānphaṭa Yogīs and is mentioned by Bāber and Abūl Fazal. Traditionally this is the place where Gorakhnāth lived in the *Satya Yuga*.¹ In the north-west the chief saint of the Kānphaṭas is Ratannāth of Peshāwar. These Yogīs do not wear the rings in their ears because they claim to wear them in their hearts.