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Sadhus

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Hindus
Ascetics

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Images about Sadhus

50 images from works
  • An Indian sadhu with very long fingernails is holding his arm up above his head. Ink drawing with pencil and watercolour by WB.
  • An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a saffron loincloth and turban and carrying a cloth bundle, pot and beads. Drawing, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with withered left arm raised over his head, and overgrown fingernails. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, playing a tambourine. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a loincloth and carrying two large weights (?), one in each hand. Gouache painting, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, one performing self-torture. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a short saffron robe and tigerskin. Gouache painting, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A well-dressed Hindu ascetic or holy man receiving gifts from a richly dressed woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
  • An Indian man wearing many beads, and carrying a begging bowl and an umbrella, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Hooks, ropes and a lancet used by Hindu ascetics for self-torture. Engraving, 1798.

Works from the collections

54 works

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    A Hindu ascetic, or holy man at Srirangam Temple: sitting cross-legged on a mat. Process print after J. Pedder, ca. 1890.

    Pedder, John, 1850–1929. | Date: [1891] | Reference: 567790i
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    An old Hindu ascetic, or holy man, at Haridwar: seated, with a circular grating around his neck. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.

    | Date: [1870?] | Reference: 567719i
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    A Hindu ascetic or holy man performing self-torture, accompanied by a woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).

    | Date: 1800 | Reference: 567682i
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    An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with left arm raised above his head, accompanied by a boy. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).

    | Date: 1880 | Reference: 566814i
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    A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: holding a trident. Gouache drawing by a Bengali artist, ca. 1880 (?).

    | Date: 1880 | Reference: 567690i

Related topics

India
Self-mutilation
Ethnic costume
Ethnology
Self-torture
Hair
Beards

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