Friday, September 10, 2010

Pundit

A learned Hindu. Someone versed in Sanskrit and in the philosophy, jurisprudence, and religion of India.

"The Pundits or Brahmin lawyers, still speak the original language in which these ordinances were composed."

John Justamond, tr. Raynal's Philosophical History of the settlements of the Europeans in the East and West Indies (1776).

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