One sannyasi carried a scepter of gold, five feet long, two inches thick.
In his column in Madrid's Arriba, Critic d'Ors led off for the conservatives: "How can we conceive of Jesus disguised as a sannyasi floating on a lotus lily, symbolizing .
In India, Father Roberto de Nobili assumed the saffron robes and vegetarian diet of a Hindu sannyasi, or holy man.