Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15758
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15758
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* [The first part of this word is *thera*, Skt. *sthavira*. Hardy (*E. Monachism*, p. 11) says the superior priests were called *térunnánses*, from Pali *thero*, “an elder.”]