10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GYMNOSOPHIST»
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India ...
Gymnosophist does .One of the most capacious is about halla mik tron Hurdwar,
entering the valley, not signif ,'as he translates the word, a na edwanderer,but
anaked philosopher; and we see that the Greek language hasfseparate names
for ...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany
Gymnosophist does as he translates the word,a naked tt!rtWercr,butanaked
philosopher; and we see that the Greek language has'separate names for both
classes,Gymnosophists and Troglodytes : beside, it does not appear that the ...
3
Studies in the religious life of ancient and medieval India
An Indian gymnosophist from Taxila, named Kalanos, who accompanied
Alexander (336-323 B.C. ), is stated to have burnt himself to death on a funeral
pyre at Sousa, when at the age of 70 he was afflicted with a malady that made his
life a ...
4
Tropic Crucible: Self and Theory in Language and Literature
informants as an old "gymnosophist". Jones's perception of India, like the
imaginative British perception of India generally, was determined by the
Hellenistic Greeks. Alexander the Great's world conquest reached its farthest
point in India and it ...
Ranjit Chatterjee, Colin Nicholson, 1984
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The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ...
The mother, for various reasons, commits the daughter, with certain tokens, to the
care of SISIMITHRAS, a confidential gymnosophist, who conveys her, at the age
of seven, to the court of Oroondates, and delivers her to Charicles, priest of the ...
6
Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the ...
... and the yo- gee, or old gymnosophist, who, warm with fervid. piety, spurns
external clothing. A gymnosophist, or Hindoo penitent, is not properly a brahmin ;
though a brahmin, by adopting severer austerities, may become a gymnosophist.
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Dream of Fair to Middling Women
Juniperus the Gymnosophist! I will write a long long poem on Caterina and
Juniperus the Gymnosophist, how he dreamed her a naughty vestal in the dark
gauze or Medusa in a Carmelite Ecce Homo or a barren queen bleeding,
bleeding like ...
Samuel Beckett, Eoin O'Brien, Edith Fournier, 1993
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Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates: In Three Volumes
515 These observations of the Indian Gymnosophist are a reproduction and an
application in practice1 of the The precept* iiii .»••□, • 11 andprincl- memorable
declaration ot principle enunciated by piesiaM down by Sokrates — " That the ...
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Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal: Exhibiting a Concise ...
The mother, for various reasons, commits the daughter, with certain tokens, to the
care of Sistmithras, a confidential gymnosophist, who conveys her, at the age of
seven, to the court of Oroondates, and delivers her to Charicles, priest of the ...
10
Greek Philosophy - 1956
where in a Greek -- in a Greek text the word "gymnosophist," it means influence of
Hinduism. It means asceticism. "Gymnos" means naked. And a gymnosophist is a
man whom we would call an ascete. That is, a man who, in order to be wise, ...
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, 1997
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GYMNOSOPHIST»
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'Naked at Lunch' review: Author asks 'What's so shameful about …
Early nudist clubs included colonial India's Fellowship of the Naked Trust (1891-1893, three members), the English Gymnosophist Society ... «OregonLive.com, Jun 15»
'The Temptation of Saint Antony,' Four Larks, Los Angeles
Other cast members include Caitlyn Conlin as Hilarion, a fellow anchorite, Zachary Carlisle Sanders as the Gymnosophist, an Indian ascetic, ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
Are There Any Universal Beliefs And Truths?
The story goes that Alexander met a person in India called a Gymnosophist, which is basically means a naked wise man. And he asked the ... «Jefferson Public Radio, Nov 13»
Educating Vivian Lee and Alvin Tan
The early Gymnosophists (naked philosophers) from India intrigued Alexander the Great and the term gymnosophist was given by the Greek. «Free Malaysia Today, Jul 13»
Back in the Day: Nudists stripped of home
The nudist camp, which was on Paradise Road for many years, was once part of the estate of Edith Church, a famous gymnosophist – a ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 10»
Is there an Indian way of doing business?
He came through the banks of Indus and he met there a very strange man called a Gymnosophist. He called him Gymnosophist because this ... «Moneycontrol.com, Jun 10»
