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Jain; but Osadev, the guardian goddess of the place, told the ascetic,
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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At the same time he was in the habit of visiting the famous Bengali ascetic,
New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison
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He has turned it into a picture; has helped to make his original only too familiar, perhaps, placing the three sisters against his own favourite, so unclassic, Umbrian background indeed, but with no trace of the Peruginesque ascetic,
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866
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Vaisampayana continued, "Hearing these words of the great ascetic,
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Vaisampayana continued, "And thereupon the king said unto the ascetic,
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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