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 74
t is called,is a very rare yet well-known practice amongst Hindureligious devotees. The period of inhumation may be froma few days to five or six weeks, and, if the buried manlives out the fixed time, he emerges from his temporarygrave an undoubted saint and an object of popular venera-tion ever… … [A. J. Coml:ridge & Co., Bombay. AN rEDHA:MrKHI SADHU. To face page 4fi. 1 SADHUS BEFORE THE PUBLIC AT FAIRS glorification and profit. Two recent instances, both end-ing fatally, are described by Sir Monier Williams in hisModern India (pp. 50-53). A well-known and well-authenticated instance of…
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