Definitions
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- noun a Hindu religious mendicant
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Examples
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In short, he is not a modern-day 'sanyasi' ready to kick the prime ministerial chair for the sake of someone else.
rediff News 2010
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Sadhus are sanyasi, or renunciates, who have left behind all material and sexual attachments and live in caves, forests and temples all over India and Nepal.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Skulls of Yahel Chirinian Beth Arnold 2010
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Sadhus are sanyasi, or renunciates, who have left behind all material and sexual attachments and live in caves, forests and temples all over India and Nepal.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Skulls of Yahel Chirinian Beth Arnold 2010
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Sadhus are sanyasi, or renunciates, who have left behind all material and sexual attachments and live in caves, forests and temples all over India and Nepal.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Skulls of Yahel Chirinian Beth Arnold 2010
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Sadhus are sanyasi, or renunciates, who have left behind all material and sexual attachments and live in caves, forests and temples all over India and Nepal.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Skulls of Yahel Chirinian Beth Arnold 2010
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Sadhus are sanyasi, or renunciates, who have left behind all material and sexual attachments and live in caves, forests and temples all over India and Nepal.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Skulls of Yahel Chirinian Beth Arnold 2010
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Sadhus are sanyasi, or renunciates, who have left behind all material and sexual attachments and live in caves, forests and temples all over India and Nepal.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Skulls of Yahel Chirinian Beth Arnold 2010
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He used to dress up as a ochre robed sanyasi to win elections.
Archive 2009-07-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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He used to dress up as a ochre robed sanyasi to win elections.
Overcome epistemological fetishism Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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In short we can say he is a real sanyasi in a family life.
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