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 268
n Sanyasis bodies disposed of bysimply sinking them, wdth stones or bags of sand, in aflowing stream. He laughed, and so did the Brahmachari^when I remarked that in this way the rivers were pollutedand rendered insalubrious. They deprecated this notion,holding that, as the sacred water furified all… … A SADHU OF EUKOPEAX DESCENT. Fig. 12. To face fage 222. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH SADHUS Some years ago at Simla, tlie summer capital of the IndianGovernment, I interviewed one Charles de Russette, a youngman of French descent, who, although brought up as aChristian and properly educated in Bishop…
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