Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Mahajun

A moneylender, banker, or merchant.

"Down there lives a Mahajun--my father gave him a bill,

I have paid the knave thrice over, and here I'm paying him still.

He shows me a long stamp paper, and must have my land--must he?

If I were twenty years younger, he should get six feet by three"

A. C. Lyall, Old Pindaree (1861).

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