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GYMNOSOPHISTS (
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Lat. gymnosophistae, from Gr. yuµvos, vo4mrrits, " naked philosophers ")  , the name given by the Greeks to certain
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ancient
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Hindu philosophers who pursued
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asceticism to the point of regarding
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food and clothing as detrimental to purity of thought . From the fact that they often lived as hermits in forests, the Greeks also called them Hylobioi (cf. the Vdna-prasthas in
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Sanskrit writings) .
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Diogenes Laertius (ix . 61 and 63) refers to them, and asserts that Pyrrho of
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Elis, the founder of pure
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scepticism, came under their
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influence, and on his return to Elis imitated their habits of
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life, to what extent does not appear .
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Strabo (xv . 711, 714) divides them into Brahmans and Sarmans (or Shamans) . See
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JAINS .

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