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n. a tribe of Hindu ascetics, supposed to eat the flesh of corpses
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The Aghori ( Sanskrit aghora) are ascetic Shaiva sadhus. The Aghori are known to engage in post-mortem rituals. They often dwell in charnel grounds, have been witnessed smearing cremation ashes on their bodies, and have been known to use bones from human corpses for crafting kapalas (which Shiva and other Hindu deities are often iconically depicted holding or using) and jewelry. Because of their practices that are contradictory to orthodox Hinduism, they are generally opposed by other Hindus.
Many Aghori gurus command great reverence from rural populations as they are supposed to possess healing powers gained through their intensely eremitic rites and practices of renunciation and tápasya.
Usage examples of "aghori".
The Aghori stood up and walked through the ashes and smoke to the place among the reeds where he had left his briefcase twenty-four months earlier, protected by a plastic bag, nestled in a pile of rocks.
Years later, when I returned to another cremation ground, preparing myself in the Shivaite manner-becoming an aghori, we would say-for this task, I came to see that even those children of the quarantine, so horribly abused and murdered before my eyes, were a part of the body of God.