14. Proverbs about Jogis.
The Jogi is a familiar figure in the life of the people and there are various sayings about him:[17] Jogi Jogi laren, khopron ka dām, or ‘When Jogis fight skulls are smashed,’ that is, the skulls which some of them use as begging-cups, not their own skulls, and with the implication that they have nothing else to break; Jogi jugat jāni nahīn, kapre range, to kya hua, ‘If the Jogi does not know his magic, what is the use of his dyeing his clothes?’ Jogi ka larka khelega, to sānp se, or, ‘If a snake-charmer’s son plays, he plays with a snake.’
[1] This has been fully demonstrated by Sir J. G. Frazer in The Golden Bough.
[2] Colebrooke’s Essays.
[3] Quoting from Dr. George Smith’s Life of Dr. Wilson, p. 74.
[4] Ibidem, pp. 13–15.
[5] Weber’s Indian Literature, p. 239.
[6] Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap, lxiii.