Kalanos

This man was Swami Sphines, called "Kalanos" by the Greeks because the saint, a devotee of God in the form of Kali, greeted everyone by pronouncing Her auspicious name.

Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

Having nothing much else to do, I sought out Kalanos, and asked him about the gods of India.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

But one evening he came in looking troubled, and said, "Kalanos is sick."

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

Alexander told his friends what Kalanos wanted, and ordered Ptolemy to prepare a royal pyre.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

I think he had devised all this magnificence, not just to honor Kalanos but to make it a little bearable.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

At this, the memory came to me of Kalanos singing on his flower-wreathed bier.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

They were to be laid on the pyre and burned with Kalanos.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

"But Kalanos, he wants me to lay on the fire all that the fire has given me — honor, fame among men now and men to come, the very breath of the god which says, Go further."

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

But I can witness that Kalanos lay with folded hands, while the flowers beneath them shriveled; he neither changed countenance nor opened his mouth.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

Alexander mastered or hid his weariness; Kalanos seemed to feel none.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972