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shishyas

shishyas is the plural of shishya.

Meaning of shishya

Noun

shishya (plural shishyas)

  1. In Indian traditions: a disciple who receives spiritual knowledge from a guru.
    • That winter night, everybody was drinking rum that we, the visiting party, had brought with us from Calcutta. One of the Babaji's young shishyas had got into a close and personal tangle with the liquor, drinking faster than everybody else, and the old guru was admonishing him about overdoing the...2018 August 20, Ruchir Joshi, “Free Spirit”, in India Today, Noida, Uttar Pradesh: Living Media India Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2022

Questions about shishyas

What is shishyas the plural of?
Shishyas is the plural of shishya.

Words near shishyas in the dictionary

  1. shishmahal
  2. shishmahals
  3. shisho
  4. Shishou
  5. shishya
  6. shishyas
  7. Shisler
  8. Shislers
  9. shiso
  10. shiss
  11. shist

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