Zarmanochegas
1ST CENTURY BC INDIAN PHILOSOPHER AND MONK
Sramanachegas; Samanachegas; Zarmarus; Sramana Bargosa; Sramana of Bargosa; Sramana of Barygaza
Zarmanochegas (; according to Strabo) or Zarmarus (according to Dio Cassius) was a gymnosophist (naked philosopher), a monk of the Sramana tradition (possibly, but not necessarily a Buddhist) who, according to ancient historians such as Strabo and Dio Cassius, met Nicholas of Damascus in Antioch while Augustus was ruling the Roman Empire, and shortly thereafter proceeded to Athens where he burnt himself to death.Strabo, xv, 1, on the immolation of the Sramana in Athens (Paragraph 73).