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pundit (n)
1. A source of opinion; a critic: a political pundit.
2. A learned person.
評論家、専門家、博学者
(syn) savant, learned person, erudite person, initiate

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『ジャングル・ブック』の著者ライヤード・キプリングの著作『キム』
少年スパイ、キンボール・オハラのヒマラヤでの冒険

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Then Mahbub Ali rolled across the serai to the Gate of the Harpies who paint their eyes and trap the stranger, and was at some pains to call on the one girl who, he had reason to believe, was a particular friend of a smooth-faced Kashmiri pundit who had waylaid his simple Balti in the matter of the telegrams. It was an utterly foolish thing to do; because they fell to drinking perfumed brandy against the Law of the Prophet, and Mahbub grew wonderfully drunk, and the gates of his mouth were loosened, and he pursued the Flower of Delight with the feet of intoxication till he fell flat among the cushions, where the Flower of Delight, aided by a smooth-faced Kashmiri pundit, searched him from head to foot most thoroughly.
(Kim -- by Rudyard Kipling)