Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c5.56

c5.56

Rhinoceros horn is a favourite substance for ear-rings. It is not easily broken. The practice goes back to an early period, for such rings are dug up, from time to time, in the oldest burial places of the sect, for example, at Ṭilla and in *old* Almora. The *mahant* (head of the monastery) at Ṭilla, in the Panjab, wore (1924) rings of rhinoceros horn covered with plates of gold. Rings of rhinoceros leather are not uncommon.²