Sentence examples for holy ash from inspiring English sources

He could produce vibhuti too, holy Ash that poured from under His fingernails.

The priest approached and made his mark, a splotch of holy ash thumb-printed to my forehead.

He poured public scorn on Sathya Sai Baba, a millionaire godman who appeared to make holy ash, gold chains and Swiss watches appear from thin air.

An elderly man with a halo of Gandalf-white hair is speaking in tongues, his voice rising above the smoke and incense as he smears a devotee's back with holy ash - his only aid against infection and pain.

While it looks excruciating, a trance-like state stops participants from feeling pain; later the wounds are treated with lemon juice and holy ash to prevent scarring.

Men who sport three horizontal stripes of holy ash on their foreheads and arms, for instance, are most likely members of the Brahminical subset known as Iyers.

In time, Marx had to prove that she was "adventurous enough" for him by wading into the holy, ash-laden waters of the Ganges, but their continuing arguments over Vietnam disrupted their engagement for four more years.

"After the prayers, I smeared holy ashes on the foreheads of my family members," Mr. Shashwat recounted.

The ancient people did not wash clothes in holy rivers; only ashes from cremation were submerged in the river so that everything dissolved back into nature.

People from all walks of Hindu life make the trek to take a spiritual dip, ranging from naked holy men covered in ash (called sadhas) to well-dressed political lobbyists looking to score a few brownie points on the pilgrimage trail.

They had been to the site of the mission house in the city and had retrieved some suitcases that had been stored in the air-raid shelter and had also picked up the remains of melted holy vessels in the ashes of the chapel.