MAHATMA
Mahatma
Mahatma is Sanskrit for "Great Soul" . It is similar in usage to the modern Christian term saint. This epithet is commonly applied to prominent people like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Lalon Shah and Jyotirao Phule. Rabindranath Tagore is said to have accorded, or popularized, this title for Gandhi.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Mahatma
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