fakirs in English

noun

1

a Muslim (or, loosely, a Hindu) religious ascetic who lives solely on alms.

Giving details, the Chairman has asserted that Guru Granth Sahib revered by the Sikhs as a living God, contained verses of 15 Hindu saints and Muslim fakirs .

noun

faqir, faquir, fakeer

Use "fakirs" in a sentence

1. The best Conjurers, magicians and palmists in India are fakirs

2. Nikia and other Bayaderes give the fakirs water from the sacred pool

3. It does not encourage religious authorities to sink into meditation, as do the Hindu fakirs.

4. A Bonze asserts that Fo is a God, that he was foretold by fakirs, that he was born of a white elephant, and that every Bonze can by certain grimaces make a Fo

5. He considers that “the true affinities of the perfect lay with the ascetic teachers of the East, the bonzes and fakirs of China or India, the adepts of the Orphic mysteries, or the teachers of Gnosticism.”

6. We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.

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