Sarmanochegas

According to the Greek writer Strabo, the
name of an ascetic who was part of a
delegation sent to Athens by a king of
the Pandya dynasty, met by Augustus in
603
Sarmanochegas
Athens in 20 B.C.E. In Athens, Sarmanochegas, tired of a life of bondage on
earth, committed religious suicide by
burning himself on a pyre.