MAHARAJA BEGS
LEADS LIFE OF MONK NAKED EXCEPT LOIN CLOTH ALLAHABAD, Aug. 9. Naked except for a loin cloth, and sitting cross-legged in a temple courtyard in the Holy City of Benares, the millionaire Maharaja of Hathwa has refused the entreaties of his wife and two children to return to his palace in Bihar Province, the province of British India, in which he formerly resided.
He has firmly announced his intention to continue to lead the life of a Hindu monk, living on the charity of pilgrims.
This came as a sequel to a fortnight’s search for the Maharaja, who dismissed his attendants during a railway journey to see his aged mother, and thereafter vanished to a remote region of the country. In response to promises of a reward of £BOOO, natives tracked him down in Benares, where they found him seated in a temple with a begging bowl in his hand. The" authorities of Bihar Province give his personal income at £200,000 a year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20030, 31 August 1939, Page 11
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