Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c8.14

c8.14

5. *Daryānāth*. Although now a separate panth, this division belongs to the Heth panth of the original Gorakhnāthīs. Members of this panth are found all through North India and the Panjab. Many are found in Sind.² Beyond the Indus this division has establishments at Makhad, Kohāt and Quetta. Their sacred seat is at Uderolāl in Sind, where is found the tomb of an infant who transformed himself into an armed horseman and emerged from the Indus to rebuke the Muslim Mahammad Yusuf of Taṭṭa. He is known also as Uderolāl, Dulanlāl, Amarlāl, Zinda Pīr and Daryā Shāh. He is also called Shekh Tāhir at Uderolāl and Khwāja Khizr at Sukkur. At his temple in Uderolāl a lamp is kept burning perpetually and at the new moon he is worshipped at the river, or at a canal or by water, with rice, sugar-candy, spices, fruit and lighted lamps. He left the world by disappearing into the ground. There was a dispute between Hindus and Muslims as to the disposal of his body by cremation or burial. He reappeared and commanded them to use the two methods. Consequently, there are both a tomb and a temple at the place. About 50,000 attend the annual religious feast at Uderolāl.