Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A religious superior.

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  • noun Hinduism A head or chief of a monastery

Etymologies

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From Hindi

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Examples

  • The leader of the group, the 'mahant' leads the procession with a female consort.

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2009

  • The leader of the group, the 'mahant' leads the procession with a female consort.

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2009

  • Maharajas from "mahant rajan," or "great king" in Sanskrit are discussed in noncommittal terms of their duties as rulers -- your usual, "protect, serve and patronize the arts" -- no talk of how they did that.

    Larissa Archer: Asian Art Museum's "Maharaja" Overlooks Crucial Cultural Questions in India Larissa Archer 2011

  • Gokaran Giri, mahant of famous Ghopeshwar Nath temple was missing since yesterday morning and his body was later recovered from a pond near temple last night.

    Analysis 2010

  • Indian communist are not communist they are bunch of Hindu mahant who donot want to loose their mathas.

    Kafila 2009

  • Within the BJP, aspiring candidates to seats that the mahant-in-waiting wields his influence over do not dare raise their voices against him.

    unknown title 2009

  • The BSP hopes the younger Tiwari will give Yogi a run for his money, on the claim that BJP workers are unhappy with the Yogi's way of functioning and that the Brahman clan is upset with him for favouring Thakurs, to which caste the Yogi and the current mahant of Gorakhnath Peeth, nonagerian Mahant Avaidyanath belong.

    unknown title 2009

  • In the ceremony 51 Muslim couples tied the knot, the mahant said.

    India eNews 2008

  • The mahant was picked up by the Mumbai ATS, assisted by the U.P. ATS, from Rawatpur village under Kalyanpur police station in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2008

  • The State ADG, Law and Order, Brij Lal said here on Wednesday that the mahant was picked up for interrogation at around 2.30 p.m.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2008

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