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Definition of Maharajas
1. maharaja [n] - See also: maharaja
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maharajas
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 ..."