A depiction of ascetics from 'Asia: the first part... The Vast
Empire of the Great Mogol and Other Parts of India...' by John
Ogilby, London, 1673; and *another
view*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2013
*A
depiction of "Benjian Saints" by Johannes Nieuhof, from
Churchill's 'Voyages and Travels', London, 1703*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2011
"Two Giogi, or Iogues, with long
hair and a long beard, and a Verleas of the Indies," by Pieter van
der Aa, from 'La Galerie Agreable du Monde (...).Tome
premier des Indes Orientales.', published by P. van der Aa,
Leyden, c. 1725; also: *"Rude et volontaire chatiment que
s'imposent les Fakirs pour amende, dans les Indes"*; also: *"Figure de Bramines, avec des chaines de
fer"*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2012
Four views of "Bramin" ascetics by
Picart, c.1727
Source: ebay, May 2012
*Four
views by Zacharie Chatelain, from 'Atlas Historique...',
Amsterdam, 1732*
Plate 5: 'Yxora ...' (The idol Yxora or Vedan / Bed / Beth
of the Brahmans, an idol with 4 heads, 4 hands and 2 feet. The hands
are typically holding 4 books to teach on law and religion.) Plate
6: 'Parsis...' (Three parsis guarding the fire in the temple.) Plate
7: 'Jougis ...' (Yogi Religion, a sekt of the Brahman's and their
servants. They are motionless in the pose they chose. Their belt
indicates their rank.) Plate 8: (Two Yogi's.)
Source: ebay, Feb. 2011
A view from *PREVOST*,
c.1752
Source: ebay, Aug. 2005
Several kinds of "Saniassy," in a
print from 1809
Source: ebay, May 2009
"Indische Fakire," by Friedrich
and Carl Bertuch, Vienna, c.1815 (with modern hand coloring)
Source: ebay, Feb. 2005
*"Fachiri
devoti,"
by Giulio Ferrario, from 'Il costume antico e moderno',
Florence, 1824*
Source: ebay, July 2010
*"Fakir and acolyte," a watercolor,
Patna, 1824*; also *"Holy
man"*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2013
*"The Sunyasees," by William Taylor
of the Bengal Civil Service, 1842*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2003
*A Company School gouache
painting, 1800's, of mendicants by a waterside temple*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2006
*"A Hindoo Fakeer," by Emily Eden, 1844*
(BL); [*Eden 1844*]
*A German print, 1850, showing
many Hindu images, but especially ascetics performing
austerities*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2007
*"Portrait of
a Devotee Who had been Standing Eight Years, Day and Night",
published in Boston, 1855*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2015
*"Yogee penances in India," from
Harper's Weekly, 1858*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2010
*"Hindoo fakir," a chromolithograph by William
Simpson, 1867* (BL); [*Simpson
1867*]
*"Bairagees, Hindoo devotees,
Delhi," from 'The People of India', published from 1868 to the
early 1870's by W. H. Allen, for the India Office*; also *"Tun Sookh Doss Bairagi, Hindoo
religious mendicant, Allahabad"*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2008
*"Fakir
with relics in Baroda," by A. de Neuville, from 'Le Tour du
Monde', 1870*; *"Hindoo beggar," an engraving, 1878*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2008
*"Bhopal:
Jogees" (engaged in self-laceration) from 'India and its Native
Princes' by Louis Rousselet, 1878*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2009
*"Religious mendicant," from an English
book, 1880*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2013
"The Chowk, Fyzabad," a photo from
c. the 1880's
Source: ebay, Jan. 2012
The proverbial bed of nails, a photo c.1900; *another such view, c.1880's*;
*another such ascetic, c.1880's*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2009
*"Fakeers," a photograph by Bourne and
Shepherd, early 1870's* (BL); [*Bourne
1870's*]
*Faqirs
engaged in self-laceration, an engraving by A Rixens, from 'Le
Tour du Monde', 1873*
Source: ebay, Oct. 2008
*"Fakirs, Bombay," a photo by
Taurines, c.1880's*; *a group
of ascetics, by Taurines, c.1890*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2007
A photo by T. A. Rust, c.1880's, of an ascetic who constantly
keeps his arms extended upward; *a
photo by Rust of an ascetic with a harness that enables him to
remain standing all the time*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2008
*An ascetic
with a metal grid welded around his neck so that he can never
lie down; photo, late 1800's*; *another
such view*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2008
*A bairagi
loaded with chains, late 1800's*
Source: ebay, June 2009
Austerities with the traditional "five fires" (four of
cow-dung and one the sun), in a gelatin photo, c.1890's
Source: ebay, May 2005
*"Indian
Fakir
carrying a large circlet of iron around his neck," from 'Peoples
of the World' by Robert Brown, 1892*; also *"Jogees
wounding themselves"*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2009
A group of ascetics gathered for a portrait; a photo from the
1890's
Source:
http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/9054/ppuser/9096
(downloaded Mar. 2006)
*An even more formal studio
photograph, made in 1898*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
*"Hermit at Gem Lake doing penance--exposed to
mid-day sun and intense fires--Mt. Abu, India. Copyright 1903
by Underwood & Underwood."* (Ames Library)
*"Hindu Fakirs, India," a
stereoscopic view by Griffith & Griffith, c.1900*
Source: ebay, Oct. 2007
*"Hindu devotee doing penance on a
bed of spikes near the shrine of Kali, Calcutta"; a stereo
view, c.1900*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2007
*"A Hindu fakir enduring pain and
torture" (on a bed of nails); a stereoscopic photo by R. Y.
Young, 1901*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
A group of ascetics, Bombay, c.1920's; *an ascetic on a bed of nails,
Calcutta, c.1920's*
Source: ebay, June 2007
*An ascetic on a bed of nails,
Banaras; a photo by A. H. Smith, from 'Peoples of All
Nations', J. A. Hammerton, c.1922*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2006
*Extreme tapasya, from a soldier's
photo album, Calcutta, c.1926*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2009
*Two
ascetics on beds of nails" and *two
ascetics*, from 'India: Land of the Black Pagoda' by Lowell
Thomas, 1930
Source: ebay, Aug. 2008
An ascetic in front of his cell at Bhubaneshwar, a
photogravure from Martin Hurlimann, 'India', 1928; also: *"Pushkar: a Sadhu with the Shiva
trident"*; also, *"A mendicant
monk blessing pilgrims, Allahabad"*; also: *A sadhu, Benares*; also: *A mendicant monk and street singer,
Bangalore*
Source: ebay, May 2006
From "India: Land of the Black
Pagoda," by Lowell Thomas, 1930
Source: ebay, Oct. 2008
*"A Religious Ascetic," from
Customs of the World, ed. by Walter Hutchinson, London, 1931*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2006
Needles are inserted into the skin;
a photo from the 1940's
Source: ebay, Jan. 2009
*An
ascetic with his full traveling equipment; a photo by a soldier,
World War II*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2010
*The
"five fires" penance on a large scale at Ujjain, a photo by
Ashvin Gatha, 1960's*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2009
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