Definition of Maharajas

1. Noun. (plural of maharaja) ¹

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Definition of Maharajas

1. maharaja [n] - See also: maharaja

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maharajas

mah-jongg
maha
mahagua
mahaila
mahailas
mahaleb
mahalo
mahals
mahant
mahants
maharaja
maharajadhiraja
maharajadhirajas
maharajah
maharajahs
maharajas (current term)
maharana
maharanas
maharanee
maharanees
maharani
maharanis
maharif
maharishi
maharishis
mahasattva
mahasattvas
mahatma
mahatmas
mahewu

Literary usage of Maharajas

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

1. History of the sect of Mahárájas, or Vallabhácháryas, in western India by Karsondas Mulji, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (1865)
"approaching the persons of maharajas. I have seen ten or twenty maharajas worshipped by females. The females touch the soles of the maharajas' feet with ..."

2. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"... to have been occasionally in antagonism to the maharajas. In the myths of successive Indras and other lords paramount, to which reference has already ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1875)
"That all cases in which the maharajas happen to be one of the contending parties, ... That persons criticising the doings of maharajas, even in a spirit of ..."

4. The Life of John Wilson, D.D., F.R.S.: For Fifty Years Philanthropist and by George Smith (1879)
"The union with the maharajas of the wives and daughters of the devotees according to the vow of dedication, is union with Krishna, as in the Has Lila. ..."

5. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"Hence in the temples where the maharajas do homage to the idols, men and women do homage to the maharajas, prostrating themselves at their feet, ..."

6. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1866)
"The maharajas, consequently, as teachers of a doctrine and priests of a ... There seems to exist an unlimited power on the part of several maharajas to ..."

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