pehelwan

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1. IndiaA wrestler.

   The Dom Raja's home even had its very own wrestling pit, where only decades ago, pehelwans threw each other to the ground and played for glory.

   2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 294

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   Take these two pehelwans and take sticks and kill all the snakes in this compound. I don't want to see any of these creatures alive on my lands.

   2001, Ashok Singh, The Snake God, page 258