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Re: Sadhu
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.UU.NET
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Subject: Re: Sadhu
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From: vidya@cco.caltech.edu (Vidyasankar Sundaresan)
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Date: 11 May 1994 02:16:24 GMT
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Distribution: world
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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References: <2qc2tn$aer@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <2qc2tn$aer@ucunix.san.uc.edu> Sean Sullivan <soke1@delphi.com>
writes:
> Hello,I am looking for ant information on a group in the Hindu faith
> called the Sahus I know close to nothing about them or Hinduism so any
> information would be warmly recieved.
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> Thank You.
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Sadhus are not one group. Sadhu is the popular word for a monk, more
properly called sannyasis. For good write-ups on this, read the
Encyclopedia Brittanica, under the articles Monasticism, sannyasin,
Hinduism, dasanami sannyasin etc.
S. Vidyasankar
