They were reduced to mendicancy. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Brahmamas who supported themselves by mendicancy, stood before the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Brahmanas who supported themselves by mendicancy, stood before the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1] Reference
With all the destitution that exists, there is almost no mendicancy. From Wordnik.com. [What the Southern Negro is Doing for Himself] Reference
Neither mendicancy, nor the life of a Sudra is what is proper for thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
In this way mendicancy is lawful to religious no less than to seculars. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
I always bow down unto the Brahmanas whose mode of living is mendicancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
We would then have lived by mendicancy till the destruction of this body. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
One should not go about visiting many houses in one's round of mendicancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Neither thy mendicancy nor my royalty can aid or obstruct our Emancipation. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
It was not by study, or gift, or mendicancy, that thou hast acquired the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Sudras live by adopting lives of mendicancy, and Brahmanas live by serving others. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
In his rounds of mendicancy he should never follow another (bent on the same purpose). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
The flood of tears and hysterical sobbing were in the highest art of expert mendicancy. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
The man who leads the life of mendicancy should conceal himself for avoiding gifts with honour. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
He that would live by mendicancy, cannot, by any act of his, enjoy the good things of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
And into my face I strove to throw all the wan wistfulness of famished and ingenuous youth of mendicancy. From Wordnik.com. [Confession] Reference
What is said here is that only a person of such forbearance should betake himself to mendicancy or Sannyasa. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
The general term for members of the Vishnuite religious orders, who formerly as a rule lived by mendicancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
There are heroes in respect of obedience to mothers, and heroes in the matter of the life of mendicancy they lead. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Having left the domestic mode of life, he may adopt the life of mendicancy by begging, what would barely support his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
We must remember that mendicancy is a very ancient institution in Italy, and that it will die hard, if it ever dies at all. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
He established a system of poor relief, taxed the nobles and the clergy to pay its costs, and then made mendicancy a crime. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-20] Reference
The ascetics live happily, betaking themselves to mendicancy, without being injured by any creature, like bees in the forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
This cycle has become a concern for the government agencies tasked to make begging illegal by enacting an anti-mendicancy law. From Wordnik.com. [Overpopulation needs immediate attention] Reference
Today, it is not a matter of dealing with the problems of illiteracy, lack of schools, or the problems of mendicancy and hunger. From Wordnik.com. [CLOSING SESSION OF THE 3RD COMMUNIST PARTY] Reference
A life of mendicancy is not obligatory upon the three orders (viz. Kshatriyas, Vaisyas. and Sudras), O giver of profuse presents!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
It behoveth thee not to adopt the idle, wretched, infamous, and miserable profession of mendicancy that is worthy only of a coward. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Brahmacharya, forest life is superior to domesticity, and a life of mendicancy or complete renunciation is superior to a forest life. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Secondly, mendicancy may be considered on the part of that which one gets by begging: and thus a man may be led to beg by a twofold motive. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Tuberculosis, lunacy, war and mendicancy must now cease. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
'You have seen him lying here for years, a motionless lump of mendicancy, at the Temple gate. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference
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