Sentence examples for perform austerity from inspiring English sources

Vishnu went to Badrinath to perform austerity, meditating for a long time in padmasana.

They advise her to go to Pushkar and perform austerities (Tapas) and prophesy that she will be become Svargalakshmi ("Lakshmi of the heaven") as the result of her asceticism.

During each month as a man, Ila turned to pious ways and performed austerities under the guidance of Budha.

One of Shiva's devotees becomes distracted while performing austerities, and asks Shiva to rid the forest of the destructive goddess.

However, the parents desired a son and so prayed and performed austerities to propitiate the deities Mitra and Varuna, who changed Ilā's gender.

At Gokarna, Kalmashapada performs intense austerities and is liberated from Brahmahatya.

The BBC's Chris Morris reports for Newsnight from Athens on the juggling act he will have to perform - balancing anti-austerity politics and financial reality.

Stiglitz, a left-leaning professor at Columbia University, said, "Austerity leads the economy to perform more poorly.

Here the sage punished his body and performed great feats of austerity.

When it turned out that a majority of the public did not share her enthusiasm for austerity, she performed a U-turn.

Set after the sack of Troy, written in the aftermath of the thirty years' war, it is performed in the dark austerity dress of the second world war, with just one splash of white - the heavy folds of the heroine's ill-fated wedding dress.