What is "mahatmas"

Usage examples of "mahatmas".

There were many other tasteful presents, from various barons, archbishops, princes, landgraves, tributary kings, corporations, popes, sultans, royal commissions, urban district councils, czars, beys, mahatmas, and so forth, but the nicest present of all was sent most affectionately by his own guardian, old Sir Ector.

I tortured myself with pictures of murderous yellow men possessed of the power claimed by the Mahatmas, of levitation.