Bairagi

The name Bairagi is supposed to come from the Sanskrit

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By calling him "Bairagi", the BJP leaders attempted to drag him into Hindu fold, he lashed out.

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A proper Bairagi is one whose principal deity is either Vishnu or either of his great incarnations, Rama and Krishna.

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When a Bairagi receives alms he will present to the giver a flower and a sprig of _tulsi_.

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Properly, a religious mendicant of any Vishnuite sect should be called a Bairagi.

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Every Bairagi before he takes his food should dip a sprig of

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If a mendicant Bairagi keeps a woman it is stated that he is expelled from the community, but this rule does not seem to be enforced in practice.

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[154] See article Bairagi for some notice of the sect.

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As a rule, the Bairagi landowners and moneylenders are not found to be particularly good specimens of their class.

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A Bairagi or Vaishnava religious mendicant much likes to carry a tiger-skin on his body if he can afford one; and a Brahman will have the skin of a black-buck spread in the room where he performs his devotions.

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