| 释义 |
‖ pandaram E. Ind.|pənˈdɑːrəm|
[Tamil paṇḍāram.]
A low-caste Hindu ascetic mendicant; also applied to the low-caste Hindu priests of S. India and Ceylon.
1711in J. T. Wheeler Madras (1861) II. 163 The destruction of 50 or 60,000 pagodas worth of grain..and killing the Pandarrum. 1814W. Brown Hist. Propag. Chr. (1823) I. 184 With the view of becoming a distinguished Pandaram, he placed himself under the tuition of one of the most celebrated priests. 1859Tennent Ceylon I. iii. vii. 373 A little temple..in which consecrated serpents were tenderly reared by the Pandarams. |