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A sadhu (wandering holy man) in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. The four Hindu stages of life consist of student, householder, forest dweller, and wandering dependant. The sadhu depends on gifts of food or money to support himself in the final stage of his life.
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A sadhu in Nepal. In Hinduism, a sadhu (or saddhu) is an itinerant holy man. He survives by begging for food and money.

In Hinduism, a wandering holy man who devotes himself to the goal of moksha, or liberation from the cycle of reincarnation.



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Kalbelia musicians performed in their Sunday finery, dreadlocked sadhus smoked their chillum s in the shade of a peepal tree and even the touts were out to make a quick buck.
There is hardly any even open space left at Gangotri and the addition of dwellings for tourists and Ashrams (hermitages) for Sadhus (holy men or ascetics) have to be on the mountainous slopes rising along the banks of the Bhagirathi or its major tributary at Gangotri, the Kedar Ganga River.
Many of the Sadhus who play roles in the Kumbh Mela are, as Maclean describes, "media savvy," negotiating rights with photographers.
 
 
 
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