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  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • Ascetics preparing and smoking opium outside a rural dwelling in India. Gouache painting by Kavala, 18--.
  • Four sadhus (Hindu ascetics) performing rituals and austerities. Drawing, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Hooks, ropes and a lancet used by Hindu ascetics for self-torture. Engraving, 1798.
  • Sikh ascetics misbehaving: preparing drugs, slothfulness, begging, teaching the young wrong ways. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Three Hindu ascetics walking on burning embers. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, seated on a verandah by moonlight, listen to music played on a vina. Gouache painting.
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, one performing self-torture. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, one holding a sword in a scabbard (left), the other smoking a hookah (right). Gouache painting, ca. 1880 (?).
  • India : a gathering of Hindu ascetics (sadhus) at a religious festival: in the background, the Union flag flies over a British military fortification. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Two Hindu ascetics: left, a man holding a peacock feather broom and fan; right, a woman holding a peacock feather broom. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
  • Burma: a monastery with ascetics or holy men outside; a group of monks giving or receiving pots; a mast with a snake descending from it; people processing foodstuffs. Gouache painting.
  • Two Hindu ascetics: left, a woman wearing saffron robes, brimless hat and slippers and smoking a hookah; right, a barefoot man wearing a saffron loincloth and a tigerskin, and carrying a spear and sword in a scabbard. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
  • Three Hindu ascetics, or holy men: above, a man lying on a bed of nails; below left, a man seated in the lotus position with withered arms raised above his head; below right, a man seated in the lotus position holding a trident. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman, 1809.
  • A Vaishnavite or bairagi ascetic. Gouache, 18--.
  • A pandaram or Malabar ascetic. Gouache, 18--.
  • (Far left) The ascetic Kaladevala and the king pay
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, playing a tambourine. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791.
  • A Hindu ascetic hanging from hooks through his back (called "cetil"). Line engraving, 1791.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man, performing austerities outside a temple (?). Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man, at Haridwar: seated, holding a fan. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a short saffron robe and sandals. Gouache painting.
  • Ascetic standing next to a tree, near Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Hindu ascetic seated under a tree, near Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: holding a trident. Gouache drawing by a Bengali artist, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man, left profile view, meditating outside a temple (?). Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: holding a trident. Gouache drawing by a Bengali artist, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a short saffron robe and tigerskin. Gouache painting, ca. 1880 (?).