"Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >What are the criteria (for being a pundit)? Is there some certification?
Dana: One must be a brahmin from a pandit family. One must learn Sanskrit in the traditional manner and master a prescribed text. When one has achieved mastery there is a formal ceremony to acknowledge him as such. You can just grab someone and say, "hey, want to be a pandit?" BTW, pandits tend to have formal alligences to specific textual traditions, temples and ashrams, and are not easily subsumable into one large body of pandits.
