bairagi

AMRITSAR: A radical Sikh Organisation Dal Khalsa took BJP president Nitin Gadkari to task over his river-linking idea and dubbing Baba Banda Singh Bahadur as "bairagi" during his 3 day visit to Chandigarh and Fatehgarh Sahib respectively.

PunjabNewsline.Com 2010

A long-haired Hindu bairagi [holy man], who had just bought a ticket, halted before him at that moment and stared intently.

Kim 2003

There is no cure for his hurts, as I see, except he sit for three days in the habit of a bairagi. '

Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

A long-haired Hindu bairagi [holy man], who had just bought a ticket, halted before him at that moment and stared intently.

Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

Purun Dass swept the stone floor clean, smiled at the grinning statue, made himself a little mud fireplace at the back of the shrine, spread his antelope skin on a bed of fresh pine-needles, tucked his bairagi -- his brass-handled crutch -- under his armpit, and sat down to rest.

The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

( 'Can ye hear?' saith Kabir), a _bairagi_ avowed!

Songs from Books Rudyard Kipling 1900

There is no cure for his hurts, as I see, except he sit for three days in the habit of a bairagi.’

Kim 2003