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monkey, whom he has taught to obey his commands, and to exhibit amusing gesticulations. The dress of this class of Jogis is generally a cap and coat, or frock of many colours: they profess to worship Siva, and often carry the Linga, like the Jangamas, in the cap; all classes and sects assume the character, and Musalman Jogís are not uncommon. One class of the Ilindu Jogís is called Sárangihár, from their carrying a Sárangi, or small fiddle or lute, with which they accompany their songs: these are usually Bháshá stanzas on religious or mythological topics, amongst which stanzas ascribed to BHATŘIHARI, and a Paur'únic legend of the marriage of Siya and PÁRVATÍ, are particularly celebrated. The Sárangihárs beg in the name of BHAIRAVA: another sect of them, also followers of that deity, are termed Doríhárs from their trafficking in small pedlary, especially the sale of thread and silk, to the housewives of the villages; another class adopt the name of Matsyendrís, or Machchhendrís, from Matsyendra, whom they regard as their founder; and a fourth set are Bhartriharis from a traditional reference to him as tlie institutor of this particular order. The varieties of this class of mendicants, however, cannot be specified: they are all errants, fixed residences, or Maths, of any Jogis except the Kánphátás rarely occurring: an observation that will apply to perhaps all the Saiva sects, of whom it yet remains to give an account.
