Many Sadhus ( Hindu monks ) are also celibate as part of their ascetic discipline.

* Naga Sadhus, Hindu ascetics of the Himalayas

File: Girnar Parikrama Sadhus. jpg | Sadhus ( Hindu ascetics ) at Girnar Parikrama

It is said that Hindu Sadhus have a history of paranormal levitation and that when one progresses on the path of spiritualism levitation comes naturally.

Sadhus, Hindu holy men, gather here and stay from the Ekadashi to full moon day in caves.

It is still borne by some of the heretic sects of Indian Sadhus.

Sadhus are known for the extreme forms of self-denial they occasionally practice.

Many Sadhus, Yogis, or Yoga practitioners keep beards, and represent all situations of life.

Sadhus openly smoke ganja and there are government licensed bhang shops in some regions.

# Sadhu Keertanas ( hymns on Sadhus and sants.

Dreadlocks are associated most closely with the Rastafari movement, but people from many ethnic groups in history before them have worn dreadlocks, including many ancient Semitic and Indo-Aryan peoples of the Near East and Asia Minor, Sadhus of Nepal, India and the Sufi Rafaees, the Māori people of New Zealand, the Maasai and the Oromo of Ethiopia, and the Sufi malangs and fakirs of Pakistan, and medieval Irish Warriors.

The Greeks, the Pacific Ocean peoples, the Naga people and several ascetic groups within various major religions have at times worn their hair in locks, including the monks of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Nazirites of Judaism, Qalandari Sufi's the Sadhus of Hinduism, and the Dervishes of Islam among others.

Sadhus and Sufis use Bhang to boost meditation and to achieve transcendental states.

The Nagas or Naga Sadhus ( Naked Saints ), are often called Indian gymnosophists.

Like Naga Sadhus, the Digambar sect of Jain monks of India, remain unclothed.

Many Sadhus and Tantrikas live in the smashan, some with permanent huts as residences.

In complete contrast to the settled monastic establishment of their day, which concentrated the Buddhist intelligenzia in a limited number of large monastic universities, they adopted the life-style of itinerant mendicants, much the wandering Sadhus of modern India.

Sadhus often wear ochre-colored clothing, symbolizing renunciation.

He started torturing Rishis and Sadhus.

At that time, present-day Uttarakhand also served as a haunt for Rishis and Sadhus.

The Naga Sadhus, Aghoris and Tantric Bhairav sects smoke it freely as an integral part of their religious practice.

File: Sadhus in Rajasthan. jpg | Sadhus in Rajasthan

In the company of the Sadhus, he travelled through Northern India and finally arrived at Nanded ( in present-day Maharashtra ), situated on the bank of the river Godavari.

Hindu ascetics like Jadrup were treated with respect, and it was only those who upset the order of the state that were seen as a threat to the state, with their popularity making them even more dangerous.

Keeping silence, even in times of verbal abuse, was practiced by Hindu ascetics.

He also built numerous other Hindu temples and ashrams, or retreats for ascetics.

However, it is far more likely this depicts a Hindu sannyasi particularly since Benares is the holiest city in Hinduism where large numbers of ascetics gather.

The term has also been used to refer to Hindu and Buddhist ascetics ( e. g., sadhus, gurus, swamis and yogis ).

Many religious orders adhere to a mendicant way of life, including the Catholic mendicant orders, Hindu ascetics, some dervishes of Sufi Islam, and the monastic orders of Jainism and Buddhism.

Hindu ascetics ( sadhu ) traditionally use a dried gourd vessel called the kamandalu.

Hindu ascetics and wandering monks ( sanyasis ), observe this day by offering puja to the Guru, during the Chaturmas, a four month period during the rainy season, when they choose seclusion, and halt at one selected place ; some also give discourses to the local public.

The term " mendicant " may also be used to refer to other non-Catholic and non-Christian ascetics, such as Buddhist monks and Hindu holy men.

At the age of 16 he left his home and joined the party of wandering Hindu ascetics ( sadhu ).

Apart from the mosque, called Jāma ' Iltutmish ( pronounced Altamish locally ), nearly the whole of the ancient temple has fallen into ruins, but the relics are still unsurpassed as examples of Hindu architecture and sculpture.

Thus, in the Hindu schools, if a claim was made that could not be substantiated by appeal to the textual canon, it would be considered as ridiculous as a claim that the sky was green and, conversely, a claim which could not be substantiated via conventional means might still be justified through textual reference, differentiating this from the epistemology of modern science.

They lacked, for example, the ubiquitous Islamic dome which did not appear in Indonesia until the 19th century, but had tall timber, multi-level roofs not too dissimilar to the pagodas of Balinese Hindu temples still common today.

The Hindu zodiac, being sidereal, does not maintain this seasonal alignment, but there are still similarities between the two systems.

In actual practice, there is a strong societal taboo against pre-marital sex for both males and females, which still exists today in Hindu cultures.

In other cultures no crown is used in the equivalent of coronation, but the head may still be otherwise symbolically adorned, as a royal tikka in the Hindu tradition of India.

When Hinduism first came to Java, Yama was still the same as Yama in Hindu myth.

They were still a minority in the Punjab province of India, which remained Hindu majority.

A small enclave of Hindu communities still remain in Tengger mountain range.

For example, Benzaiten is a Japanese name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati, and the ancient Siddhaṃ script, which disappeared from India by 1200 CE, is still written by monks in Japan.

The city dates back to the Gandhara period and contains the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takṣaśilā which was an important Hindu and Buddhist centre, and is still considered a place of religious and historical sanctity in those traditions.

However, in Pakistan it is still expected that a bride will bring some kind of dowry with her to a marriage, whether she is Muslim, Hindu, or Christian.

Despite this migration, a significant Sindhi Hindu population still resides in Pakistan's Sindh province where they number at around 2. 28 million as per Pakistan's 1998 census while the Sindhi Hindus in India as per 2001 census of India were at 2. 57 million.

Vyāsa is also considered to be one of the seven Chiranjivins ( long lived, or immortals ), who are still in existence according to general Hindu belief.

It embraces the Hindu and Muslim periods, and is still a work of high authority.

Portuguese rule saw a decline in the Hindu population on the island and the abandonment of the Shiva cave ( main cave ) as a regular Hindu place of worship, though worship on Mahashivratri, the festival of Shiva, continued and still does.

In fear of communal campaigning, Paul Berenger made an alliance with then Mauritian Socialist Party and its leader, Harish Boodhoo. He hoped that the PSM would draw most Hindu votes as Hindu was of majority in the country. He still proposed Anerood Jugnauth as prime minister and Harish Boodhoo as Deputy Prime Minister.

South of these, the Hindu state of Carnatic or Vijayanagar still survived ; but this, too, was destroyed, at the Battle of Talikota ( 1565 ) by a league of the Muslim powers.

In all, Islamic fanatic ruler Qutb-ud-din Aibak destroyed 27 Hindu and jain temples and reused the building materials for construction of Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque and the Qutub Minar according to a Persian inscription still on the inner eastern gateway

According to a Persian inscription still on the inner eastern gateway, the mosque was built by the parts taken by destruction of twenty-seven Hindu and Jain temples built previously during Tomars and Prithvi Raj Chauhan, and leaving certain parts of the temple outside the mosque proper.

The nineteenth century saw active widow reform movements in Bengal — the ban on Sati in 1829 and the Hindu Widow Re-marriage Act of 1856 were key milestones – but the related social practices took a long while to die out and indeed, still remain in part.

In most of the northern half of India, traditionally dressed Hindu women cover the tops of their heads with or the end of the sari or dupatta ( Scarf ). In many orthodox families Hindu married women still do not show their face to their father-in-law and elder brothers of her husband by covering their face with extension of sari, which is known as Ghoonghat.