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 KLEITAECHOS ON THE BKAHMANS 65 live chiefly in the open air, practising asceticism for the space of thirty-seven years, as I have mentioned above. Women live in their society, but without cohabitation. The Gymnetai are held in high esteem. The Townsmen (Pramnai) dwell in cities and wear fine linen, or also in the country, clothed in the skins HINDUS AT THE WELL OF KNOWLEDGE, BENARES. of fawns or antelopes. In short, the Indians wear white garments, white linen and muslin, contrary to the ac- counts of those who say that they wear garments of a bright colour; all of them wear long hair and long beards, plait their hair, and bind it with a fillet. Artemidoros says that the Ganges descends from the Emoda Mountains and proceeds toward the south; when it arrives at the city Ganges, it turns to the east, and