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whole book of the Atharva Veda (XV) is devoted to them, but the text is unclear,<br />

however, highlights the fact that Vratya practice asceticism (remain standing for the<br />

space of a afio, etc..) Know a discipline of respiration (assimilated to the cosmic vari-ous<br />

regions: Atharva Veda, 14, 15), approving his body to the macrocosm (18, 1). This<br />

mysterious confraternity was nevertheless important as a special sacrifice, the<br />

vratyastoma, had been organized to reintegrate its members into the Brahmanic society.<br />

The texts devoted to vratyastoma and mahavrata (rite solstitiale with persistent good<br />

number of archaic elements) allow us to glimpse the mysterious characters: wearing a<br />

turban, were ves-ted in black and covered their shoulders with two plexus of sheep, one<br />

white and one black: as a badge they wore a steel-tipped cane, a Adorno around the neck<br />

(Niska) and a drawn bow (jyahroda). The lance wand (

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