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ONE OF A LARGE COMPANY OF SAINTS |
WAYSIDE PIETY AT A BUDDHIST SHRINE IN CAMBODIA |
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| Usually of Mahomedan origin, the Pirs are holy men, supported during life and venerated after death by Mahomedans and low-class Hindus alike. Rather a miscellaneous lot, they are found throughout India, this man's habitat being in Gwalior | By rule Buddhist priests should live the most abstemious lives. They are supposed to have no money or possessions of their own, and are supplied with their daily food by the villages that support them. At this small woodland shrine a group of yellow-robed pilgrim priests are devoutly reciting prayers to the inscrutable figure above them — Buddha, the serene of face |