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swami

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Swami is a 1977 Hindi film directed by Basu Chatterjee and produced by Jaya Chakravarty (mother of Hema Malini ). The film stars Shabana Azmi , Vikram, Girish Karnad , Utpal Dutt . Hema Malini and Dharmendra make a guest appearance together in the film. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1773, "Hindu idol," later, "Hindu religious teacher" (1901), from Hindi swami "master" (used as a term of address to a Brahmin), from Sanskrit svamin "lord, prince, master, (one's own) master," from sva-s "one's own" (from PIE *s(u)w-o- "one's own," from ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All the disciples were ranged around the swami on the platform. ▪ And at this point not even the most optimistic swamis are predicting a balanced budget until well into the twenty-first century. ▪ Last night in the parking lot ...

Usage examples of swami.

A writer in some strange way knows his own future - his end is in his beginning, as it is in the pages of a horoscope, and the schoolboy Swami, watching the friend with whom he had needlessly quarrelled, vanish into the vast unknown spaces of India, had already experienced a little of what Krishna came to feel as he watched his beloved wife die of typhoid.

Charlotte was the fact that sannyasin Swami Prem Prasad was with Hanya at the airport.

Quickie was bringing someone to see Sheff Hassell, probably Swami Benares!

As for Caglio, you probably picked him as Sheff Hassell chose Swami Benares - because you had looked into his record.

On 9 January 1983, she divorced him in Portland, Oregon, and a week later married an American sannyasin, Swami Prartha Subhan.

Our Hermy attended as Psyche -- She siked and she got it across And Fothergil Finch, rather gaumy With Cosmic cosmetics, was there, But the Swami went just as the Swami, After oiling the kinks in his hair.

Brainstorm Slum Fake, Nut and Freak Psychologist Eternally shall buzz and hum, And Spook and Swami keep their tryst with Thinkers in a Mental Mist.

It is stated that his patriotism got the religious colour by his contact with one Swami Hamsa.

Gurus, swamis, psychics, Tarot-card readers, acupuncturists, herbalists to movie stars, channelers, aura interpreters, palm readers, chaos-theory dice counselors, past-life guides, high-colonic therapists, and other specialists offered their services in heartening numbers.

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.

At last, continued the Swami, the swaying and the suggestion of chanting ceased, the lambent nimbuses around the now drooping and motionless heads faded, while the cloaked shapes slumped curiously on their pedestals.