"Pundit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... prearranged by Ananta. Before seeing me at Hardwar, he had stopped in Benares to ask a certain scriptural authority to interview me later. Both the pundit and his son had promised to undertake my dissuasion from the path of a ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... am told, by a pundit in these matters, that the term is found at least as early as Patanjali (the Mahabhashya;) that is probably, the latter half of the second century B.C.: and hence, it must have originated ...
— Bubbles of the Foam • Unknown
... nymphs, on the fleet horses! He has a total world of wit; O how wise are his discourses! But he is the arch-hypocrite, And, through all science and all art, Seeks alone his counterpart. He is a Pundit of the East, He is an augur and a priest, And his soul will melt in prayer, But word and wisdom is a snare; Corrupted by the present toy He follows joy, and only joy. There is no mask but he will wear; He invented oaths ...
— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... to have known, for he was a perfect polyglot dictionary in himself. He did not pretend, like a certain learned pundit, to speak the two thousand languages and four thousand idioms made use of in different parts of the globe, but he did know all the more ...
— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne
... military mob; at length he announced that the most favourable day was not till the 15th Mujsur (28th November). The military were furious, and declared that he was an impostor, and that they had to get from him two crores of rupees which he had made from the public money; the pundit implored mercy, and said the 7th Mujsur (20th) was also a good day; the military were still angry, and the poor ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various
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