Word: sadhus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officiating sadhu, a holy man, as Surana's men forced their way through the ring of rubbernecks. The cops attacked a pile of cement slabs with pickaxes and dragged a young Hindu out of a freshly dug grave. A 25-year-old laborer who had become the sadhus' "disciple" only two months before, he was barely alive. But dead or alive, his act of faith would have made the hill a profitable shrine for his masters who would later pass the hat to pilgrims coming there to seek divine grace. After rescuing the victim, the police raced...
...suggestion that got nowhere: in Allahabad, the Naga Sadhus, holiest of India's holy men, suggested that Eisenhower, Churchill, Malenkov, Mao Tse-tung and India's Prime Minister Nehru (optional at no extra cost) meet in the nude high up on the Himalayas to bring an end to the cold...
...jungle shrine in Ceylon last week, a group of local sadhus celebrated a rite of Hindu holy men: walking barefoot over a bed of glowing coals. To the Rev. Eric Robinson, a British Methodist missionary, it was the opportunity he had long been waiting for. Pulling off his shoes and socks, he stepped on the coals, walked the length of the burning pit himself. The doctor's verdict: severe burns on the feet, which confined Missionary Robinson to his bed for a week...
...Kumbh Day, April 13, at 3:48 p.m., the day and time calculated by astrologers as most auspicious for bathing, the pool was reserved for holy men (Sadhus). It took the 15,000 Sadhus three hours to march down the three-mile route to the water. Most wore saffron robes or loin cloths, but 2,000 of the holiest were naked. Each of the seven Akharas (orders) had its painted elephant, and at the head of each order rode its leader, shaded by a red umbrella. Six of the leaders were in palanquins carried by six men; the chief...