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  • n  a Hindu religious mendicant

  • 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.

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