Indian sages
group · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
gymnosophists (implied) · those who are held wise
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Indian philosophers cited as condemning Alexander's conquests as madness.
the Indian sages call him a madman;
remarked the disapprobation, which the Indian sages expressed of the conduct of Calanus:
Tusculan Disputations
Indian ascetics said to endure cold and self-immolation without pain
Yet in that nation, first, those who are held wise pass their lives naked, and endure the snows of Caucasus and the force of winter without pain, and, when they have applied themselves to the flame, are burned without a groan.