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 303
d their History—A public Entertainment at the sameMonastery—Respect entertained by the Sect for Ashes—Interviewwith another Abbot who had not a single good word for Sadhus—Visitto a Dharmsala of the Nirmali Sect; Sanskrit Literature read andexpounded there—The great Monastery at Jogi Tilla ;… … HERE existed inthe Indian forestsin the earliestages communities ofhermits, of the typedescribed in Sakuntala,all the residents of thepenance - grove beingunder one head orabbot; and since Buddhist times there have been through-out the country regularly constituted conventual establish-ments. Most…
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