In revisiting what is known about the early history ofthe Nāth Yogīs in Nepal and contrasting what isknown about them from the time of the Malla kings(1200-1768/69) with the information we have from theperiod of Śāh and Rāṇā rule (1768-1950), the presentchapter will attempt to shed light on the different“shades” of power and power relations evidencedamong Nepalese Yogīs. In the first part, based on are-reading of the available epigraphic sources, itwill be shown that in the Kathmandu Valley the closelinkage between the Yogīs and the king, which isclearly attested for later periods and has beenrepeatedly projected by scholars onto the moreremote past, only came into existence slowly. Thesecond part of the chapter deals with the specialrelation of the Śāh kings from Gorkha to theirtutelary deity Gorakṣanāth, and briefly describesthe stellar career of Siddha Bhagavantanāth, a Yogīfrom West Nepal, who has already been studied in thepioneering works of Günter Unbescheid (1980) andVéronique Bouillier (1991a and b). Finally, thechapter discusses new pertinent documents, some yetunpublished, thus providing updated informationabout the development of Bhagavantanāth's lineage,including a demonstration that the support andprivileges granted by the temporal powers to thislineage for more than a century were notopen-ended.