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Definition of Gurus

1. guru [n] - See also: guru

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gurus

Literary usage of Gurus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"I. History of the Sikhs: While the religion was founded and developed by a series of ten teachers who were called gurus, the beginnings of their faith are ..."

2. Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India by Jean Antoine Dubois (1817)
"JL HE word Guru properly means master; whence fathers and mothers are sometimes called Maha-gurus, or great masters of their families; kings the gurus of ..."

3. A Selected Bibliography and Syllabus of the History of the South, 1584-1876 by Howard Haines Brinton, Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown, Alexander von Humboldt, John Nicol Farquhar, William Kenneth Boyd, John Washington Lockhart, Robert Reid, José López de Bustamante, Robert Preston Brooks, Jonnie (Lockhart) Wallis, Evergreen Press, F (1915)
"Two MINOR gurus Two young Hindus, belonging to our own day, the one a Telugu, the other a Tamil, have each sketched a system and gathered a few disciples. ..."

4. A History of the Sikhs: From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the by Joseph Davey Cunningham (1918)
"... 1675-1708. about this time the Sikh gurus came to talk of themselves, ... or gurus. that they guided men to salvation, while others controlled their ..."

5. Hindu Castes and Sects: An Exposition of the Origin of the Hindu Caste by Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya (1896)
"THE MODERN HINDU gurus. A FEW words about the probable origin of the modern Guru's profession may not be out of place here. There is no mention of it in the ..."

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