Mohammedan law being based on the teachings of the Quran, the chief pandita of the district is naturally regarded as the most competent expounder of the law and the best-fitted person in the community to act as a judge.
If a minister of rank without any official title or a panglima pihaq [22] or a pandita of the capital is robbed, twenty-five pesos shall be paid to the person robbed and forty-five to the treasury.
If adultery is committed with the wife of a pandita who is in the council or in the capital of the sultan, the man shall pay forty gajahilaw.
The pandita is the scholar who can read and write and perform the functions of a priest.
The words panglima andpandita are used in a plural sense in this paragraph.
If a subordinate officer of state or an agent of the sultan or a country pandita is robbed, twenty pesos shall be paid to the person robbed and fifty to the treasury.
The Datu Kali is the chief pandita of the district and is supposed to be the best-informed man of the community.
If subordinate officers below the panglima [16] or inland country pandita or the agents of the sultan or panglima are robbed, the thief shall be fined twenty pieces of calico.
The laws that are embodied in the Luwaran are selections from old Arabic law and were translated and compiled for the guidance and information of the Mindanao datus, judges, and pandita who do not understand Arabic.
Some datus are pandita themselves, and some take all matters into their own hands and delegate none of their offices or duties to a judge or a vizier; but this is the exception, not the rule.
This had already been employed for writing Mongol by Sakya Pandita and its definitive form for that purpose was elaborated by the Lama Chos-kyi-ḥod-zer in the reign of Khubilai's successor.
On the ground before this curtain sat the Pandita and the prospective bridegroom, the bare soles of their feet touching and their hands closely clasped beneath an enshrouding cloth.
To obtain the best results the officers of dato and pandita should be suppressed, and other radical measures carried out.
With that object in view they cut off the head of Eloy, which Batuga carried, while the pandita Gubat, my friend, carried an arm.
This latter sent a priest, Pandita Kalibaudang, and Datto Andig to sue for peace and cajole the General with the fairest promises.
Then the Pandita talked to him, and said, "Only a few days ago, the Moglung passed here on her way to her brother's home in heaven.
While the Buso slept, the Pandita rubbed his joints with betel-nut; and when he woke up, he was a malaki again.
I amPandita Lama, Turjo Gamba, from the distant and glorious monastery of Sakkia in Tibet, where dwells incarnate in a human body the Spirit of Buddha, his Wisdom and his Power.
On this mountain only such men can ascend as are born of the direct line of Jenghiz Khan," the Pandita explained to me.
In Erdeni Dzu formerly lived Pandita Hutuktu, who had come from Agharti.
The martial spirit of Pandita Hutuktu was very unwelcome to the Council of Lamas, who protested against the adventuresomeness of this "Living God.
He was dressed in a blue silk Russian uniform with yellow epaulets with the sacred sign of Pandita Hutuktu, in blue silk trousers and high boots, all surmounted by a white Astrakhan cap with a yellow pointed top.
This boy was the first Hubilgan, also an incarnate Buddha, an artful teller of fortunes and the successor of Pandita Hutuktu.
Pandita began to clean off the wool and ashes with his knife and, cutting it into thin strips, fell to eating this really tasty course.
By now Pandita Hutuktu probably rests in eternal peace on the top of some sacred mountain, sent thither by the solicitude of his extraordinary court physician.
After this he gave a large piece of meat to the smallest son of the host, which was the sign that Pandita Hutuktu invited all to begin the feast.
At one o'clock the day after my arrival I was visited by the local "Very God," Gheghen Pandita Hutuktu.
The Pandita thanked me and invited me to visit him.
The warlike Pandita Hutuktu prayed on the ruins where the shades of these potentates who had ruled half the world wandered, and his soul longed for the chimerical exploits and for the glory of Jenghiz and Tamerlane.
Without any confusion Pandita drew his red mantle of the Hutuktu over his European coat and long grey trousers and allowed the shocked Lamas to carry their "God" away in his palanquin.
Peking invited the Pandita Gheghen from Dolo Nor and the head of the Chinese Lamaites, the Hutuktu of Utai, both of whom do not recognize the supremacy of the Living Buddha, to come to the capital.
He wanted all pandita to learn Arabic and prepared Arabic-Sulu vocabularies as a preliminary step to making the Arabic the official language of the state.
Arabic; orator; the pandita who reads the oration, a part of the religions services held on Friday.
With solemn ceremony the pandita prepared to anoint the boys according to the rites of the tribe.
The rebuke that fell upon her from the others, brought a frown to the boy's face, but he continued to advance until he stood beside Dato Kali Pandapatan and Pandita Asin.
Had not the pandita said that Ganassi would be with the real charm boy, and was not Piang sure of that protection?
Sicto was somewhere on that mountain, striving to reach the summit too, and the panditahad said that the boy who arrived first, was the real charm boy.
Solemnly old Pandita Asin led the chant while the Moros prostrated themselves in supplication, and the dying sun slipped over the mountains, touching every tree and flower with its gold.
The Grand Lama has about him two priests of the highest grades, one the Pandita and the other Tchoiji.
It is claimed thePandita is at least one hundred and fifty years old.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pandita" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
