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in South India of MSS. belonging to the Nātha Yogis o! Northern India, proves the influence these yogis exerted throughout India.
My present collection consists of the following: - 1. Siddha Siddhānta Paddhati by Gorakhnāth from Jodhpore.
Do. Do. Do by Gorakhnāth from Hardwar.
Do. Do. Do. by Gorakhnāth from Tanjore. 2. Yoga Visaya by Matsyendra from Madras. 3. Amaraugha Probodha by Gorakhnāth from Madras. 1. Yoga Mártyanda by Gorakhnāth from Tanjore.
Gorakh-Upanishad - Jodhpore. 6. Matsyendra-ji-kā pad — Jodhpore.
Bhartrihari-ji-kā Sabdi - Banaras. 8. Chirpat-ji-kā-Sabdi --- Banaras. 9. Gopichandra-ji-kā Sabdi Banaras. 10. Jālandhar-ji-kā Sabdi - Banaras.
In 1951, at Poona, through the help of Principal S. P. Dandekar, I secured a Marathi Drama, partly written in Hinci by B. Varve. In this drama Gorakhnāth is telling Kanita about Gopichandra the king of Sundarpur, near Bengai. Gopichandra has confined Jalandhar in a well. Kanisa on the other hand tells Gorakh that his guru, Matsyendra, is attracted by the queen Parimala of the ladies' country in Māliyal. Gorakh says, “Well, you go to Bengal in search vi your guru and I shall rescue my guru from Mäliyāl and come to Sundarpur". They wish good-bye with the words Adesh, Adesh (the usual custom with the Nātha Yogis).
In this drama we find names of places and of the queen which are unknown in Bengal ; otherwise this drama is not of much value and is comparatively new.
A copy of the MS. of ' Atmabodh' though obtained from Jodhpore, is not being published in this volume, as it is to be found in Dr. Barthwal's Gorakh-Vani' in Hindi. A list of another ten books has also been obtained by me, viz.. Abhayamātra, Kafērbodh, Pransankali, Sriştipurān, Saptabār, Narvébodh, Sodastithi,Sikşadarsan, Brahma jñāna Panchamātra. But most of these have been already published by Dr. Barthwal in his Gorakh-Vani. Kabirbodh has been mistakenly published as a work of Kabirpanth. A pamphlet describing