<br><p><i>Alexander the Great Receiving News of the Death by Immolation of the Indian Gymnosophist Calanus</i>, painting by Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne, 1672.
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Jean Baptiste de Champaigne (10 December 1631, Brussels – 27 October 1681, Paris), was a Flemish Baroque painter and teacher.<br></p>
Kalanos, also spelled Calanus (c. 398 - 323 BCE) was a Brahman sage, who accompanied Alexander the Great to Persia and later committed suicide by self-immolation according to his customs.
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