Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c7.85

c7.85

Householders of certain villages in the Poona district wander from place to place carrying their huts and goods on ponies and buffaloes. They eat fish and the flesh of sheep, goats, hares, deer, wild pig and fowls, drink liquor and eat opium. They wear large thick ivory, clay, bone or fish-scale rings in the lobes of their ears, put on rudrākṣa rosaries, and sing songs of Gopicand. They bury their dead and exhibit other traits pointing to Gorakhnāth. Their chief gods are Gorakhnāth and Matsyendranāth.