But no pundit had succeeded in penetrating to the source, and the one who had advanced nearest to it, namely, to a point 30 miles from it, had been attacked by robbers and forced to turn back.
No European and no pundit had hitherto ventured on this problem; but Hodgson, Saunders, and Atkinson had many years before laid down a hypothetical range on their maps of Tibet.
From our Shamsang the Pundit crossed the Marium-la, and said in his report that the sources of the river were certainly in the huge chain seen in the south, and were fed by its glaciers.
The pundit places a small island in the northern half, and adds the legend "Monastery on Island.
When they got home, the Pundit said, "You shall not go until the engagement is fulfilled.
The Demon thought all that the Pundit said must be true, he spoke so fearlessly and naturally.
The Wrestler was much surprised to find that thePundit knew where the cauldron was hidden, and said, "Who can have put it there?
This proposal pleased the Wrestler and the Pearl-shooter, who accompanied the Pundit to his house.
And so saying, the Pundit crept back into the house, followed by his wife.
So, by never showing that he was afraid, this brave Pundit saved his family from being eaten by these Demons, and also got a vast amount of treasure.
Instantly Demons without number filled the house with riches, and when they had accomplished their task, they all flew away, fearing greatly the terrible Pundit and his friends, who talked of eating Demons as men would eat almonds and raisins.
No experience should come amiss to a detective; he should be a pundit of all knowledge.
Illustration: Meredith Townsend, Editor of the Friend of India, and his Moonshee, the Pundit Oomacanto Mukaji, Doctor of Logic in the Muddeh University.
Even a priest cannot pronounce it without sin; and a holy Pundit would shut his ears and run away from you in horror, if you should say it aloud.
If you wanted to get the Pundit to look at his religion fairly, you must first depolarize this and all similar words for him.
The Moonshee is a follower of the Prophet and teaches Oordoo, or Hindoostanee, while the Pundit is a Brahmin and instructs you in Marathee or Gujarathee.
Tom comes, like the Pundit, in the morning, but he is different from the Pundit and we welcome him.
I do not know for what purpose this sort of Pundit is useful.
There were at his house many agreeable sights; one pundit was translating Scripture into Sanskrit, another into Guzerati, and a table was covered with materials for a Chinese dictionary.
A pundit came to me this morning, but after having my patience tried with him, I was obliged to send him away, as he knew nothing about Hindustani.
The expectation from prophecy is very prevalent hereabouts that the time is coming when all the Hindus will embrace the religion of the English; and the pundit says that in many places they had already begun.
An hour the Noa-Noa lay gently heaving upon the mysterious waters in which the despairing pundit had sought Nirvana, until the boat returned with a report that it had picked up the buoy, but had seen no sign of the man.
With a view to test the knowledge of his Pundit on those two subjects, Bishop Middleton was said to have once asked him two very simple questions, (1) whence are the English come?
The Pundit setting up an image, invites all his patrons, neighbouring friends and acquaintances on this occasion.
However learned a Pundit might be in philology, philosophy, logic and theology, he is lamentably deficient in scientific knowledge, notably in geography and ethnology.
In every chatoospati or school, the Brahmin Pundit and his pupils worship this goddess with religious strictness.
Banerjea, Pundit Isser Chunder Vidyasager, Baboo Bhoodeb Mookerjee, and others of equal mental calibre, are names deservedly enshrined in the grateful memory of their countrymen.
Buckland's class,--or the botanic searchings for wild rarities with some naturalist pundit whose name I have forgotten; and so forth.
Another pundit asked her in what language the voices spoke to her, and she retorted, "A better dialect than yours.
A third pundit thought he would stop her by asking if she believed in God, to which she replied, "More than you do.
Sheik Salah was the son of a punditat Delhi, and was well-learned in Persian and Arabic.
The new comers meantime applied themselves to the study of the language, after overcoming the disdain of their pundit at having to instruct a woman.
He was intent on raising a dispute with some learned pundit about the waves of sound,--but he could think of no other sound than that of the light steps of Colonel Osborne as he had gone up-stairs.
At last he asked, “if the Pundit had not observed, that an interview with an Indian woman of the Brahminical cast was next to impossible?
The Pundit paused, and the Nuncio was still silent.
The Pundit took his leave, and the Christian retired, to give himself up to the usual religious exercise of the evening.
The Pundit secretly observed the effects of his proposal, and withdrew.
A stride, and Pundit Bagh, who had plotted as he crouched, shot into the air, a quivering mass of gold and bronze in the sunlight.
This is the story of Pundit Bagh, sahib: Long ago there was a pundit that had a drug that would change him into an animal, and if he took another it would change him back again.
With a snort of defiance the bison suddenly charged; and Pundit Bagh, his yellow fangs bared in a savage growl, vaulted lightly to the top of a flat rock, taking a swipe with spread claws at the bull's eyes as he passed.
Lord Victor arrived now, and as he had not yet seen the skin of Pundit Bagh he was taken to where it was pegged out on the ground and being rubbed with ashes and alum.
A sigh of relief escaped from Finnerty as the dogs slunk back and Pundit Bagh, seemingly none the worse, crouched again for battle.
But a pundit passing by, said: His meditation can be of nothing but the syllogism and its members.
Such a quality indicates the highest kind of pundit: and it should be recollected that Saraswati is the divinity of wisdom, the pundit par excellence.
Pundit Shyama Charan Kaviratna, during my residence at Seebpore, assisted me in going over the Mokshadharma sections of the Santi Parva.
Pundit Ram Nath's solid scholarship is known to them that have come in contact with him.
I employ a pundit merely for this purpose, with whom I go through the whole in as exact a manner as I can.
A pundit is to have the charge of them, and they are to be taught Sanskrit, Bengali, and Persian; the Bible is to be introduced, and perhaps a little philosophy and geography.
He engaged as hispundit and interpreter Ram Basu, one of the professing inquirers whom Thomas had attracted in former days.
Just as we had finished it, a pundit and another man from Nuddea came to see me.
His own specialpundit was the chief one, Mrityunjaya Vidyalankar, whom Home has immortalised in Carey's portrait.
I showed it to them; and the pundit seemed much pleased with the account of the creation; only they have an imaginary place somewhere beneath the earth, and he thought that should have been mentioned likewise.
And you eat the living," replied the American, as he handed a little hand-microscope to the pundit and asked him to focus it upon his dinner of dried figs.
The pundit looked at the figs through the glass, and behold, they were covered with crawling, wiggling, wriggling, living life!
Pundit Gobaria, who will be remembered as having been mentioned in my early chapters, is the most influential Shoka trader in Bhot, and on very friendly terms with the Tibetans.
Against my will I had been advised to pay a certain sum at Almora, in exchange for which I received a letter of credit on Pundit Gobaria, a rich trader of Garbyang, who was to pay me the amount in silver.
A large tent had been put up for me by Pundit Gobaria's brother, who had been informed of my coming by Anti Ram Sah, my banker at Almora.
The Pundit says that "her beauty, her enthusiasm, her graces, and her genius, alike capacitate her to propagate and support the errors of which she herself is the victim.
Wonderfully acute and painstaking though the Pundit mind be, it has so dwelt in the regions of speculation and imagination that it has paid no attention to historical research.
Indeed the pundit in a party that has few facilities for cooking has, as I remember well in one instance, this honour conferred on him on account of his caste being higher than that of those who are with him.
One of our number was a converted pundit of Almora, who spoke to the people in a way I thought eminently fitted to make a favourable impression.
Our Christian party were present at the appointed place and hour, but our pundit friends did not put in an appearance.
Ballantyne, vigorous, and I hope to some degree successful, effort was put forth to infuse Western literature, philosophy, and science into the pundit mind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pundit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
