Editing Inedia (section)

===Hinduism===
Some Hindu religious texts contain accounts of saints and hermits practising what would be called inedia, breatharianism or Sustenance through Light in modern terms. In Valmiki's ''[[Ramayana]]'', Book III, Canto VI, an account of anchorites and holy men is given, who flocked around [[Rama]] when he came to [[Śarabhanga]]'s hermitage. These included, among others, the "...saints who live on rays which moon and daystar give" and "those ... whose food the wave of air supplies". In Canto XI of the same book, a hermit named [[Māṇḍakarṇi]] is mentioned: "For he, great votarist, intent – On strictest rule his stern life spent – ... – Ten thousand years on air he fed..."  (English quotations are from [[Ralph T. H. Griffith]]'s translation).

[[Paramahansa Yogananda]]'s 1946 book ''[[Autobiography of a Yogi]]'' details two alleged historical examples of breatharianism, Hari Giri Bala and [[Therese Neumann]].

There are claims that [[Devraha Baba]] lived without food.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

Some breatharians claim that humans can be sustained solely by ''[[prana]]'', the vital life force in [[Hinduism]]. According to [[Ayurveda]], [[sunlight]] is one of the main sources of prana, and some practitioners believe that it is possible for a person to survive on sunlight alone.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}