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# Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c19.6

Gorakhnāth and the Kānphaṭa Yogīs c19.6

- **Language:** English

### [c19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.briggs-1938.c19.6)

The nine doors are the seven in the head and the two at the base of the trunk. To these is added as a tenth the hole-in-the-skull, and it is through this that the soul, liberated, escapes. The divinities are Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rudra, Īśa and Sadāśiva, each of whom is assigned to a particular ‘centre’.

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