Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The various Brahmanical creeds prevailing among those Hindus who worship Vishnu and Siva have been amply illustrated by Colebrooke and other eminent scholars. When I was in England in 1836 the learned H. H. Wilson desired me to ascertain and describe the peculiarities of the Jangams or anti-brahmanical worshippers of Siva, whom he had but slightly noticed in his Essay on Sects, in the seventeenth volume of the Asiatic Researches.
1 Compare Dens, Theologia Moralis vii. 327 de dotibus corporis gloriosi. And compare the character of Siegfried of the Niebelungen Lied. In Wilson's Essay on Religious Sects Hindus, “Yogi” in a note he gives a genealogy of the Nâthas; the 8th is Goraksha: the 25th is Allama and the 26th is Prabhu Deva.