And beholding that virtuous ascetic before him, the righteous king worshipped him according to the ordinance, with the offering of Madhuparka.

And she, in the meantime, having given everyone the slip, found a false ascetic, and bribed him with jewels, giving him instructions without letting him know who she was.

The king is the successor of the Pandavas but is doomed to die within a week for having by accident insulted a holy ascetic.

And as thou wilt lead these ascetics to those tirthas, thy merit will be much greater.

His unattractive austerity perhaps has been made too much of by his enemies, and grew out of his unimpulsive temperament,call it cold if we must,and also out of his stern theology, which marked the ascetics of the Middle Ages.

This duty also necessitates the ascetic to pluck out in the most painful manner his hair which, according to oriental custom, he must do away with at his consecrationa peculiar custom of the Jainas, which is not found among other penitents of India.

And the faultless Sukanya also having obtained that ascetic for her husband, began to tend him, practising penances, and observing the ordinance.

In this couplet and the following the poet ridicules the ascetics of his time.

And saluting those ascetics grown old in practising austerities, she stood in an attitude of humility.

O ye with the regenerate ones at your head, versed in virtue and profit, do you approaching the ascetics separately and inclining them to grace, represent unto them what may be for our supreme good!'

Some men have no capacity for certain sins of the flesh; others there be, who, having lost their inclination for sensuality through too much indulgence, turn ascetics.