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1. MAHANT
Social Institutions and Movements/Traditional Sikh schools
MAHANT, originally the superior of a math or any other similar religious establishment. In the Punjab of early Sikhism, its characteristic usage referred to the leaders of Nath deras. The term acquired a distinctive Sikh application during the eighte...
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2. MELI
Social Institutions and Movements/Traditional Sikh schools
MELI, lit. attached or companion, appears in the Sikh Scripture in different connotations usually as a verb form, past indefinite of melana (to attach, join, bring to gether), in the feminine form (GG, 54, 63, 90, 243, 379, 389, 584 et al.); as an ad...
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