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 41
nity, or Islam ; and to thesepecuHarities, and the motives mider-lying them, I now invite attention. All the most esteemed sages ofIndia are believed to have practisedausterities. The great poets, too, eventhe more modern ones, such as TulasiDas, author of the Hindi Ramayana, and Jayadeva, authorof… … SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF HINDU ASCETICISM like Arjuna and Rama, are credited with ascetic practices ;but it is decidedly startling to learn that the gods them-selves have undergone self-inflicted tortures for the attain-ment of the objects of their desires. Referring to thispoint, the late Professor…
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