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Jalandharnath was also known as Jalandharipa or Hadipa. One opinion is that he was the king of Jalandhar, and another is that he was born in Sind. He was by caste a Sudra and learnt Yoga at Uddiyana, the great centre of Buddhist tantrikism and magic. We have already described the great powers of Hadipa. Jalandhar was praised in sixteen different books written by his follower Mansingh, the ruler of Jodhpore. In the literature of the Siddhas, Jalandhar is known as Vicharnath and Gopichandra, his disciple, as Sringaripava. In the Siddhanta Vakya we find some questions and answers between Jalandhar and Gopichandra in which the ideal of Natha cult is described. Jalaridhar is a disciple of Gorakhnath and the guru of Gopichandra, so we may place him in the eleventh century.
Jnanesvar has been dealt with before, and it is sufficient to mention here that he was a Maharastra saint and his books Jnanesvari and Yogi-sampradayaviskrti have earned the fame he deserves. Jnanesvar belonged to the thirteenth century and we have given our reasons when discussing the date of Gorakhnath.
We shall now deal with a Yogi of modern times. He is Yogiraj Sree Gambhirnathji who passed away not so long ago in 1917 A. D. He was initiated by a Mohant of Gorakhpore Termple. Gambhirnath was a non-Bengali, yet he had about six hundred Bengali disciples. Gambhirnath was in charge of the Gorakhpore Temple, but he never accepted the Mohant's post, which was offered to him. The character of this saint was spotless, and he was well-known for his charities at Kumbha Melas and elsewhere. In Gorakhpore a small but beautiful temple of white marble with a life-size image of the once handsome Gambhirnath done in white marble too, has been erected by his Bengali followers. Santinath and Nivrittinath, two of his Bengali disciples, still reside in the temple grounds and carry on their studies of religious books. Thus the cult which originated with Matsyendra and Gorakhnath, is still a living source of inspiration to many.
Matsyendranath, Minanath and Luipa -
Are they Identical ?
The names of the gurus and their sishyas (i. e. preceptors and their disciples), as found in the different lists, are often confusing. In the history of the 84 Siddhas as found from
