[199] See the signification of _dhárana_, as taken from Wilson’s Dict., and given in note 6, p. 125.
[201] गोरखनाथ a name adopted by a class of Yógis――(_Wils. Dict._, sub voce, _nátha_.)
[202] Perhaps मचर्चिक नाथ _macharchika nátha_, “lord of excellence,” or “happiness.”
[203] Probably चूडाङ्कनाथ _chúdánka nátha_, “lord of the ornament of the crest.”
[204] Professor Wilson (see his Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus, in the XVIth vol. of the _As. Res._, p. 1-136) has enumerated the religious divisions of the Hindus as they have been described by the author of the _Sankara Vijaya_, probably in the 8th century of our era, to which enumeration he added that of the present divisions of this people, comprised in three great classes: the _Vaichnavas_, the _Sâivas_, and the _Saktas_. Very few names of these sects are to be found in The Dabistán, although both works agree in general in the account of the opinions, rites, and customs of the different sectaries; the outlines of their systems appear to have remained the same during at least the last thousand years, whatever alterations the details may have undergone.
[205] _Panthi_ is derived from the Sanskrit पन्थिन् _panthin_, “who goes the road.” This term occurs only in the word परिपन्थिन् _pari-panthi_, “an adversary.”
[206] According to the Shah-nameh, Afrasiab, after many battles, succombed to the fortune of Kaí-Khusro. The king of Turan fled to the mountains of Berdah, where he concealed himself in a cavern. It so happened that Hum, a descendant of Feridun, lived as a hermit in the same desert: there he heard by night a voice of complaint, which he soon recognised to be that of Afrasiab. The hermit had not extinguished the vindictive passion in his breast; he seized and bound the fugitive king, and conducted him to be delivered into the hands of Káí Khusró. On the bank of a large river, Hum, visited by a feeling of pity, loosened the fetters of his prisoner, who profited by these few moments of liberty to escape, and dived into the water, where he remained concealed, as is said above, so that he could not be discovered. Káí Khusró, having in the mean time arrived to receive himself the great captive, Hum advised the king to subject Gorshivez (Afrâsiab’s brother) who was also a prisoner in his hands, to severe tortures, in order that the lamentations of the sufferer might draw Afrasiab out of the water. This stratagem succeeded, and Afrasiab was killed by the sword of Káí Khusró.