bhajan

plural bhajans

1. entertainmentA type of Indian devotional song.

   Did I detenct Father's deep and rumbling baritone in the chorus which accompanied my wife's first bhajan of the evening?

   1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 396

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   "No, there was never a school," said the child; "but the patwaris bibi lets us come to her of a morning, and teaches us bhajans and our letters, and when we learn well she sometimes gives us fruit."

   c. 1885, A.L.O.E, The Wondrous Sickle