sannyasi
Hinduism. a wandering beggar and ascetic.
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They are monks who never marry, but are quite different from other mendicant brotherhoods, the so-called sannyasi and Hossein.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna BlavatskyThe day before we had received a letter from Swami Dayanand, carried to us by a traveling sannyasi.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna BlavatskyOne great-sannyasi refused to receive her because she was a woman; her reply brought him humbly to her feet.
Autobiography of a YOGI | Paramhansa YoganandaA dust-covered sannyasi made this request of Afzal one day during his early boyhood in a small village of eastern Bengal.
Autobiography of a YOGI | Paramhansa YoganandaSeymour escaped, and returned to India in the dress of a sannyasi.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
British Dictionary definitions for sannyasi
sanyasi sannyasin (sʌnˈjɑːsɪn)
/ (sʌnˈjɑːsɪ) /
a Brahman who having attained the fourth and last stage of life as a beggar will not be reborn, but will instead be absorbed into the Universal Soul: Also called: renunciate
Origin of sannyasi
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