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for a time being, forget the knowledge thus obtained by decep- tion. In the Bengali story of Goraksa Vijaya or Minachetan it is related how the great guru Matsyendranath has temporarily forgotten this knowledge and has become immersed in love of the queens of Kadali in Assam, who are proficient in magic There are only women in this state, sixteen hundred of them, all able to bewitch men who happened to come their way. This belief is still held in certain parts of Assam! Gorakhnath, however, on receipt of this sad news of his guru'sdownfall goes forth in the disguise of a woman, delivers him and changes t] sixteen hundred women of Kadali to bats, where to this day they can be found in a cave. This rather farfetched story was invented in all probability to depict the greater powers of Gorakhnath over his guru. Gorakh is said to have attained superhuman powers by reason of his perfection in Yogic practices. But at the same time Gorakh delivers his guru by uttering "Jai Matsyendra' thus showing reverence to the guru though he may have fallen temporarily. This is the subject matter of the legend Goraksa-Vijaya which means 'the conquest of Gorakh', or Minachetan, which means 'the awakening of Mina' ( Mina = Matsya =fish ). The books Goraksa-Vijaya and Minachetan are identical but published from different places. Both the works are in Bengali.
In the Kaula-jnana-nirnaya in Sanskrit, edited by Bagchi, we find that the Lord Siva had himself appeared on the earth, in the disguise of a fisherman as Matsyendra, to preach the doctrines of the Kaula sect. The Natha Yogis were at one time all known as Kaulas, a special branch of the Tantriks, who were worshippers of the Goddess. Matsyendra initiated Gorakhnath, though there is no mention of Gorakhnath in Kaula-jnana-nirnaya.
Guru Gorakhnath initiated Jalandharnath. In a drama discovered in Nepal on Gopichandra's renunciation, we find Jalandharmath telling Gopichandra that he was the king of Jalandhar and had given up his throne and seven hundred queens to become a yogi. Jalandhar later on became Gopichandra's guru.
Bhartrhari, the king of Ujjain, became the disciple of Gorakhnath. In some legends we find the mention of
