Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c9.26

c9.26

Near the Dāk Bungalow, in Almora, is another private establishment. The temple contains small images, about a foot high, of Bhāiroṁ and Pārvatī, carved in a slab of stone, and one of similar size of Gorakhnāth; the latter exhibiting the large ear-rings greatly exaggerated. The temple contains the usual collection of objects. One liṅga is arranged with a water jar above it so that water may fall continually upon it. The jar was empty. Here the father, though still alive, has been superseded by his son, also a Yogī, as pūjārī. These Yogīs are of the Satnāth sect. The endowment consists of one village.