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‖ sannyasi Anglo-Ind.|sænˈjɑːsiː|
Forms: 7 sanasse, 8 saniasi, sanashy, sannyasin, sinnasse, sinassie, senassie, sunniassy, -asse, 9 sanyasi, sanyassi, senassea, sunyasee, -as(s)i, sunnyas(s)ee, -asi; 9– sannyasi; 20 sanyas(s)in.
[a. Urdū, Hindī sannyāsī, = Skr. saṃnyāsin laying aside, abandoning, ascetic, f. saṃ together + ni down + as to throw.]
A Brahman in the fourth stage of his life; a wandering fakir or religious mendicant. Also attrib.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage v. ix. 417 Some [Bramenes] wander from place to place begging: Some (an vnlearned kinde) are called Sanasses. 1766J. Rennell MS. Let. 30 Aug. (Y.) The Sanashy Faquirs (part of the same Tribe which plundered Dacca in Cossim Ally's Time). 1773W. Hastings Let. 2 Feb. in Gleig Life (1841) I. 282 You will hear of great disturbances committed by the Sinassies, or wandering Fackeers. 1777Stewart in Phil. Trans. LXVII. 483 This Indian..must have travelled as a Faquier or Sunniassy through Bengal into Thibet. 1812J. Malcolm in Asiatick Researches XI. 267 That crowd of holy mendicants, Sanyásís and Fakírs, with whom India swarms. 1839Lett. fr. Madras xxiii. (1843) 244 A Sunnyassee, or Hindoo devotee, came to pray in the middle of the river. 1854Geo. Eliot tr. Feuerbach's Essence Christianity xvii. 167 No regenerate man could assume the rank of a Sanyassi,..if he had not previously paid three debts. 1876Sannyasin [see bhikshu]. 1885G. S. Forbes Wild Life in Canara 88 A Hindoo sunyási, or hermit, lived in a cave under the overhanging rock. 1891Monier Williams Brahmanism & Hinduism 55 He was a Sannyāsī and an unmarried Smārta Brāhman. 1938W. S. Maugham Writer's Notebk. (1949) 280 At his birth his horoscope was taken, and the astrologer said that he would either become a very rich, successful man, a king among men, or a sanyasin. 1957Contributions to Indian Sociol. I. 17 Now, what one is in the habit of calling Indian Thought is for the very great part the thought of the sanyasi. 1960E. R. Leach Aspects of Caste in S. India, Ceylon & N.W. Pakistan 6 It is open to every man to become a sannyasi and receive the adulations of his society. 1978Times 5 Aug. 7/8 Dom Bede Griffiths, a Benedictine monk who has spent the past 16 years of his life as a sannyasi—a kind of hermit—at a Hindu ashram at Kerala in India. 1980Daily Tel. 13 Feb. 15/4 She joined a group of sanyassins, and became fascinated with the guru's writings. |