Lexicographical Neighbors of Sittars
Literary usage of Sittars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Outline of the Religious Literature of India by John Nicol Farquhar (1920)
"sittars. § 426. There was a Saiva school in Tamil-land, which held a monotheistic
and Puritan ... Many of the hymns of the sittars are collected in the ..."
2. An Encyclopaedia of Religions by Maurice Arthur Canney (1921)
"The name sittars taken by a modern sect in Southern India is equivalent to the
... The sittars may have been influenced either by Islam or by Christianity. ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The sittars or sages were a Tamil sect who, while retaining Siva as the name of
the One God, rejected everything in Siva-worship ..."
4. The Religions of India by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1895)
"... Saints,' sittars (Sanskrit Siddhas), but these are a modern sect whose religion
has been taught them by Islam, or possibly by Christianity.1 The extreme ..."
5. The Religions of India by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1895)
"... and the Tamil sittars. But in secondary subtlety and in the marking of
distinctions, in classifying and ..."
6. History of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter, Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, Vincent Arthur Smith, Henry Miers Elliot, Stanley Lane-Poole, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1907)
"... (sittars, " saints ") are merchants and also porters, whensoever they have no
means of trade. ..."
7. The History of Religions by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1918)
"It is this tendency which led in the middle ages to the deistic sects like that
of the sittars (Blessed), believers in a pure life and one God. ..."
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