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swami

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Swami or 'स्वामी ' is the award winning Marathi novel by famous writer Ranjit Desai . It was published in 1962 and for this extraordinary work, Ranjit Desai received many awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964. It is set in Maharashtra , India ...

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 ...

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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.