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n. - Member of a Hindu sect practicing meditation and nudity.

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  • Then the gymnosophist asked, “What are you doing?” and Alexander said, “I am conquering the world.”
  • “Not so, O king,” replied the gymnosophist, “unless you said falsely that he should die first who made the worst answer.”
  • Flames start out on every side through the partings of the beams; and the gymnosophist resumes:
  • But there is this about some women, which overtops the best gymnosophist among men, that they suffice themselves, and can walk in a high and cold zone without the...
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