释义 |
gosain India.|gəʊˈsaɪn| Also (formerly) gosaing, gosine, gossein. [Hindi, etc. gosāīn (Skr. gosvāmin ‘lord of cows’, f. go cow n.1).] A Hindu who professes a life of religious mendicancy.
1774G. Bogle in C. R. Markham Tibet (1876) 124 The Gosains, the trading pilgrims of India, resort hither in great numbers. 1793W. Hodges Trav. 112 A Gosine, or Hindoo Religious. 1813J. Forbes Orient. Mem. II. 9 This village belongs exclusively to the Gosaings, or Senassees, a caste of religious Hindoo mendicants. 1826W. B. Hockley Pandurang Hari I. 97 About five miles from the city I reached the hut of a Gossein. Note, A religious mendicant. 192319th Cent. Jan. 107 A certain gosain or Hindu devotee. 1957Encycl. Brit. XXII. 939/2 Chaitanya himself, as well as his immediate disciples, have come to be regarded as complete or partial incarnations of..Krishna himself; and their modern successors, the Gosains, share to the fullest extent in the devout attentions of the worshippers. |