Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c8.74

c8.74

In a variant to this story Gorakhnāth goes with the boys to beg alms at a merchant’s (*bania*) shop, and they are made to take away a dead calf. When Gorakhnāth sees the food transformed, he catches them by the hand, takes them to the merchant’s house, and there puts them to death. Thereupon all the merchants complain that he has polluted all their sacrifices by this murder; and he retorts that they had polluted his disciples. He agrees, however, to restore the two boys to life if the merchants will henceforth worship him and no other. They agree and Gorakhnāth left Pārasnāth, one of the two boys, with the merchants, and the Jains deem him an incarnation of God.²