ABSTRACT
A huge brand-new plaster figure of an impressive bearded ascetic welcomes visitors to the monastery of Asthal Bohar, near the town of Rohtak in Haryana. The enormous compound includes both religious buildings in Indo-Mughal style and modern civil buildings devoted to education and healthcare. These two styles of construction reflect very well the double trend of the maṭh: on the one hand a place anchored in Nāth traditions, a nijī maṭh with a charismatic founder, on the other the most up-to-date alliance of the charitable and the political, which its recent mahants have successfully promoted.
