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‖ swami|ˈswɑːmiː|
Also 8 swamme, swammy, sawmy, 9 swamee, swamy, sammy.
[a. Hindī swāmī master, lord, prince, used by Hindus as a term of respectful address, a. Skr. svāmin in same senses, also the idol or temple of a god.]
1. A Hindu idol.
1773E. Ives Voy. India 70 Towards the upper end, there is a dark repository, where they keep their Swamme, that is their chief god. 1794Indian Observer 167 (Y.) The gold might for us as well have been worshipped in the shape of a Sawmy at Juggernaut. 1799Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) I. 56 Some brass Swammies which were in the toshekanah were given to the brahmins of different pagodas. 1837Lett. fr. Madras viii. (1843) 64 They admire our dolls so much, that they are almost ready to make Swamies of them. 1884Sunday at Home June 397/1 A fourth [hut], the most pretentious and the best built, was consecrated to the swamie, or god.
2. A title for a Hindu religious teacher.
1901Daily News 2 Dec. 5/1 She was informed that the word Swami meant teacher. 1905United Free Ch. Mag. Feb. 9/2 A distinguished Swami or religious teacher visited Poona lately.
3. attrib. swamy-house, an idol temple or shrine; swamy-pagoda, ‘a coin formerly current at Madras; probably so-called from the figure of an idol on it’ (Y.).
1778R. Orme Hist. Milit. Trans. Indostan x. II. 443 Until they came in a line with the flank fire of the field⁓pieces at the swamy house. 1837Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 134 In the middle of the court, round which these galleries of pillars ran, was the Swamy-house, or place in which the idol is enshrined. 1857H. Greathed Lett. Siege of Delhi (1858) 112 We met Wilby at the advanced post, the ‘Sammy House’. 1813Milburn Oriental Comm. xix. (1825) 233 The old 3 Swamy pagoda, which is about 202/3 carats fine.
b. Applied to jewellery ornamented with figures of Hindu deities.
1880G. C. M. Birdwood Industr. Arts India I. 152 In the characteristic swami work of the Madras Presidency the ornamentation consists of figures of the Puranic gods in high relief. 1882B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. iv. 69 My gold swami earrings. 1903Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson, Swamy Jewelry, a kind of gold and silver jewelry, made chiefly at Trichinopoly, in European shapes covered with grotesque mythological figures. |