Word: shankara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down by the Hindu Court of Nasik. In effect the court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss Miller into the Hindu faith as a true convert. Another was to marry her to her ex-Maharaja. A third was to impart a "coconut baptism" to her child...
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