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Gymnosophists (Ancient Gr****: γυμνοσοφισταί, gymnosophistaí, i.e. "naked philosophers" or "naked wise men" (from Gr**** γυμνός gymnós "naked" and σοφία...
- Cal**** (Ancient Gr****: Καλανός) (c. 398 – 323 BCE), was an
ancient Indian gymnosophist and
philosopher from
Taxila who
accompanied Alexander the
Great to Persis...
- (presumably Gr****
rendering of "Dandi-Svami") was a philosopher,
swami and
gymnosophist whom
Alexander encountered in the
woods near Taxila, when he invaded...
- had a good deal of
information on
India and Indians. He
speaks of the
Gymnosophists of India, the
Indian Ocean, the
river Ganges etc., a
number of times...
- the
Great on his
Indian campaign, "so that he even went as far as the
Gymnosophists in
India and the Magi" in Persia.
Returning to Elis, he
lived in poor...
- meteorosophist,
which roughly translates to "expert in
celestial phenomena";
gymnosophist (or "naked sophist", a word used to
refer to
Indian philosophers), deipnosophist...
- in
addition to the Egyptians,
Pythagoras also
studied under sages or
gymnosophists in India.
Iamblichus expands this list even
further by
claiming that...
-
geographer Strabo.
Early advocates of
naked yoga in
modern times include the
gymnosophists such as
Blanche de Vries, and the
actress and
dancer Marguerite Agniel...
- Cal**** (Ancient Gr****: Καλανὸς) (c. 398 – 323 BCE), was an
ancient Indian gymnosophist, and
philosopher from
Taxila who
accompanied Alexander the
Great to Persis...
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Perhaps of
importance were
tales of
Indian philosophers,
known as
gymnosophists, who had
adopted a
strict asceticism. By the 5th
century BC, the sophists...
