The mystics, ascetics, and saints of India : a study of Sadhuism, with an account of the Yogis, Sanyasis, Bairagis, and other strange Hindu sectarians (1905)
Oman, John Campbell, 1841-1911 · London : T. F. Unwin · leaf 101
ing eight stories, in whichsadhus and -pseudo - sadhus figure prominently, will servemy purpose, while at the same time affording some inter-esting glimpses of the inner world of Hindu ideas and senti-ments. The celebrated story entitled Sakoontala, or the LostRing, may come first on account of its… … GLIMPSES OF SADHUS IN INDIAN FICTION I. The Story of Sakoontala, or the Lost Ring, BY Kalidasa.i From the Ramayana we learn, as already stated inChap, IL, that there was once a Kshatriya king namedVisvamitra, who, for the purpose of overcoming a famousBrahman sage, Vasishta, with whom he had come…
Hinduism · Asceticism -- Hinduism · Mysticism -- India · Sadhus -- India · Hindu sects · India -- Religious life and customs
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