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  • An Indian sadhu with very long fingernails is holding his arm up above his head. Ink drawing with pencil and watercolour by WB.
  • An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a saffron loincloth and turban and carrying a cloth bundle, pot and beads. Drawing, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with withered left arm raised over his head, and overgrown fingernails. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, playing a tambourine. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a loincloth and carrying two large weights (?), one in each hand. Gouache painting, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, one performing self-torture. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a short saffron robe and tigerskin. Gouache painting, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A well-dressed Hindu ascetic or holy man receiving gifts from a richly dressed woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore).
  • An Indian man wearing many beads, and carrying a begging bowl and an umbrella, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Hooks, ropes and a lancet used by Hindu ascetics for self-torture. Engraving, 1798.
  • An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with left arm raised above his head, accompanied by a boy. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: standing, beating a drum with his left hand and plucking a stringed instrument with his right hand. Wood engraving by M. Klinkicht, 1876.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man performing self-torture, accompanied by a woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • An emaciated Hindu ascetic or holy man, seated on a knoll under a tree, with his left hand held over his head; a richly dressed woman pours liquid into his bowl. Gouache painting.
  • An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with left arm raised above his head, and overgrown fingernails. Gouache painting.
  • 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).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man, seated under a tree, receiving food from a kneeling woman. Gouache painting by an artist of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a saffron loincloth and carrying a kamandal (sacred pot), a bowl (?) and an asho (wooden handrest). Drawing, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic man (sadhu) with beads around his neck is carrying a begging jar and prayer beads. Watercolour.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: suspended by a hook and two spikes inserted through the muscles of his back. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A sadhu or sannyasi wearing orange robes, with horizontal marks on his forehead, carrying a staff and a water pot. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Four sadhus (Hindu ascetics) performing rituals and austerities. Drawing, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: seated in the lotus position on a leopard skin, with withered arms raised above his head. Coloured stipple engraving, 1814.
  • Two Hindu ascetics or holy men, seated on a verandah by moonlight, listen to music played on a vina. Gouache painting.
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: with a rod piercing his cheeks, and holding some ceremonial objects. Wood engraving, ca. 1890 (?).
  • An Indian man with long hair, carrying a staff, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • 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 young Indian man wearing many beads and makeup in a temple precinct. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man, performing austerities outside a temple (?). Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • An old Hindu ascetic, or holy man, at Haridwar: seated, with a circular grating around his neck. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.