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Aghorī
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n. a group of Hindu ascetics whose spiritual practice is focused on the attainment of a state of non-discrimination characterized as aghora (lit. non-terrible). Their ascetic practices include wandering naked on cremation grounds, meditating on corpses and the consumption of impure substances.
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