Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c16.2

c16.2

THERE seems to be little teaching of books and a limited practice of Yoga amongst the Kānphaṭas.¹ Inquiries at the principal centres of the Yogīs elicit very little knowledge of their texts, even of the names of their treatises on the Haṭha Yoga. Many of the Yogīs and some of their mahants are quite illiterate. There is, however, some oral teaching. Besides the cyclic songs already mentioned, there are a number of works which Goraknāthīs use, and others which are attributed to them, or which deal with the Haṭha Yoga. For convenience of record, these books are arranged in four groups and numbered consecutively.² 1. Devī Bhāgavat.
2. Sapta Deva Stotra.
3. Bhagat Sāgar.
4. Sati Sāgar.
5. Durgā Pāṭ.
6. Bhāirom Pāṭ.
7. Rāmbodh.
8. Gorakhbodh. Written in an old form of Hindi, and reported to date from the fourteenth century.¹
9. Gyān Sāgar.
10. Brāhmaṇḍa sar Gītā.
11. Haṭha Yoga. Attributed to Gorakṣanātha.
12. Haṭha Saṃhitā.
13. Caturasityāsana.
14. Yoga Cintāmani, on Haṭha Yoga by Śivānanda Sarasvathi.²
15. Yoga Māñjarī.
16. Yoga Saṃdhya.
17. Gorakṣa Saṃhitā. Mitra says that this deals with details of performing Yoga Meditations.
18. Yoga Saṃgraha, by M. Sukla.²
19. Gorakṣa Kāumudī.
20. Yoga Mārtaṇḍa.
21. Vivekamārtaṇḍa Yoga, by Rameśvara Bhaṭṭa.
22. Gorakṣa Gītā.
23. Gorakṣa Pañcaya.