Travels in India (Tavernier) 120.6

120.6

As for Ravana, he passed the remainder of his days as a poor Fakir, his country being altogether ruined by the troops of Rama, who avenged the injury he had received, and it is from this Ravana that this incredible number of Fakirs, whom one sees in peregrination throughout India, have taken their origin. These Fakirs lead a life of such austerity that their penances amount to prodigies, and I have had the curiosity to collect several pictures of them, some of which I shall show to the reader in the following chapter.