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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 159

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the sectswhich successively arose undertheir guidance, the latter of theseexhibiting a very marked disre-gard for caste distinctions. At the same time, anthropo-morphic leanings are plainly manifest in the extensiveand popular worsliip of the Kshatriya warriors Krishnaand Rama. In Kabir we have a… … SUCCESSIVE PHASES OF MODERN HINDUISM to believe, may be numbered amongst the principaldisciples of Ramanand, thougb he was no slavish followerof the master. It is related that Ramanand lived atBenares in the strictest seclusion. He stayed all day in-doors, and only at about two oclock in the…

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