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[edit] Atur-Sannyasi

A sect of religious mendicants, joined by persons who suppose themselves to be at the point of death. It is said to have been popularised by Tulsi Das, a Daksbinatya Brahman, who accepted the mantra of the sect when he was seriously ill, and afterwards re-covering became a conspicuous adherent of the Vedanta school of philosophy at Benares. Persons who enter the sect in extremis and afterwards get well must remain Sannyasis for the rest of their lives.