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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


*"The Sunyasees," by William Taylor of the Bengal Civil Service, 1842*

Source: ebay, Nov. 2003


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


*"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*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2008


*"Bhopal: Jogees" (engaged in self-laceration) from 'India and its Native Princes' by Louis Rousselet, 1878*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2009


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 baigari 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


A group of sadhus 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


*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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