| While traveling with an expedition under Alexander the Great, Pyrrhon saw in the fakirs of India an example of happiness flowing from indifference to circumstances. |
| The community of fakirs, who once inhabited this island, has now moved to an old pagoda, not far from here in the forest. |
| In South Asia circular wooden clappers are played by beggars and fakirs in some regions and are used as rhythm instruments in others. |
| We do not need to become fakirs for the first way, nor monks for the second, nor scholars for the third. |
| He knew what the fakirs of the Taksali Gate were like when they talked among themselves, and copied the very inflection of their lewd disciples. |
| One story tells how Aurangzeb became rich by summoning fakirs to his palace and forcing them to accept fine khilats. |
