Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c7.86

c7.86

In Belgaon, wives of Yogīs wear a short-sleeved bodice and a cloth the corner of which is not passed back between the legs, a gold nose ring, a necklace of glass or of metal beads, a small, central gold brooch, and three sorts of ear-rings. While their husbands are living with them they have red lead in the parting of their hair and wear glass bangles and a lucky necklace. They are clean but lazy.¹ These Yogīs are really a caste, bound together by a social organization through which disputes are settled. Besides begging, they are engaged in cultivation, in which they are skilled. Their women help in sowing and weeding. They raise buffaloes and dogs.²