Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c7.71
Gorakhnāth and the Kānphaṭa Yogīs c7.71
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The family of Dalāl Bazaar in the Koakhali district in Eastern Bengal, is now considered as the head of their race. In the middle of the eighteenth century Braja Ballabh Rāi, a Jogī, of this family was a broker (dalāl) and his brother Rādha Ballabh Rāi was appraiser (jashandār) of the English factory of Carpata on the Meghan River. The son of the former so proved a man of business that the Company, in 1765, bestowed on him the title and rank of Rāja and gave him a rent-free estate still in the family.¹