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pandit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pundit \Pun"dit\, n. [Hind. pandit, Skr. pandita a learned man.] A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.
Wiktionary
n. an honorary title in India giving a person status as a learned man or scholar.
Wikipedia
PANDIT is a database of multiple sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees covering many common protein domains.
A pandit ( IAST: paṇḍita), also spelled pundit (both pronounced ; Sanskrit: पण्डित) is a scholar or a teacher of any field of knowledge in Hinduism, particularly the Vedic scriptures, dharma, Hindu philosophy, or secular subjects such as music. He may be a Guru in a Gurukul.
In Sanskrit, states Monier Williams, Pandit generally refers to any "wise, educated or learned man" with specialized knowledge. The term is derived from pand which means "to collect, heap, pile up", and this root is used in the sense of knowledge. The term is found in Vedic and post-Vedic texts, but without any sociological context. In the colonial era literature, the term generally refers to Brahmins specialized in Hindu law.
The related term Purohit refers to a house priest.
Pandit or pundit may refer to:
- Pandit or pundit in India, a scholar or expert, especially of traditional Indian law, philosophy, or music
- Pundit (explorer), a 19th-century term to denote native surveyors who explored regions to the north of India for the British Empire
- Pundit (expert), an expert or opinion-leader who analyzes events in an area of expertise in the popular media
Usage examples of "pandit".
McCloy, George Meany, Madame Pandit, Paul Reynaud, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson.
Near the unwalled city, the priest sat down before the pandit, Ratna Ram, whose seat was under the kadamba tree by the temple of Maha Dev.
Besides the Gilberts were Dudley Lawton and his father, Hata, the Pandit, the Swami, and the Guru - the latter four persons in high dudgeon at being deprived of the lucrative profits of a Sunday night.