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When did Gorakhnath die?

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No chronicle, inscription or hagiography records an actual death for Gorakhnath. The scholarship that debates his period treats it as a span of activity rather than as separated birth and death years, and Nath tradition itself holds he attained a deathless, perfected state through hatha yoga rather than dying an ordinary death, so no source within the tradition he founded proposes a death date either.

What would resolve this A dated inscription, monastic record or textual notice external to Nath hagiography naming an end to Gorakhnath's activity or a named successor's own dated era.
OpenHistory of Hinduism, Nath Sampradaya studiesDavid Gordon White, The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India
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Source The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval IndiaDavid Gordon White
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The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India
David Gordon White, University of Chicago Press, 1996View the Source
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