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in South India of MSS. belonging to the Natha Yogis of Northern India, proves the influence these yogis exerted throughout India.
My present collection consists of the following:-
1. Siddha Siddhanta Paddhati by Gorakhnath from Jodhpore.
Do. Do. Do by Gorakhnath from Hardwar.
Do. Do. Do by Gorakhnath from Tanjore.
2. Yoga Visaya by Matsyendra from Madras.
3. Amaraugha Probodha by Gorakhnath from Madras.
4. Yoga Martyanda by Gorakhnath from Tanjore.
5. Gorakh-Upanishad — Jodhpore.
6. Matsyendra-ji-ka pad - Jodhpore.
7. Bhartrihari-ji-ka Sabdi – Banaras.
8. Chirpat-ji-ka-Sabdi – Banaras.
9. Gopichandra-ji-ka Sabdi – Banaras.
10. Jalandhar-ji-ka Sabdi-Banaras.
In 1951, at Poona, through the help of Principal S. V. Dandelkar, I secured a Marathi Drama, partly written in Hindi by B. Varve. In this drama Gorakhnath is telling Karifa about Gopichandra the king of Sundarpur, near Bengal. Gopichandra has confined Jalandhar in a well. Kanifa the other hand tells Gorakh that his guru, Matsyendra, is attracted by the queen Parimala of the ladies' country in Maliyal. Gorakh says, "Well, you go to Bengal in search of your guru and I shall rescue my guru from Maliyal and come to Sundarpur". They wish good-bye with the words Adesh, Adesh (the usual custom with the Natha 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. Abhayamatra, Kaferbodh, Pransankali, Sristipuran, Saptabar, Narvebodh, Sodastithi, Siksadarsan, Brahma jnana Panchamatra. 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
