hosseins

Updated: May 16, 2025

Before the temple there were rows of small shops and of tents, where could be bought all the requisites for the usual sacrifices aromatic herbs, incense, sandal wood, rice, gulab, and the red powder with which the pilgrim sprinkles first the idol and then his own face. Fakirs, bairagis, hosseins, the whole body of the mendicant brotherhood, was present among the crowd.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan