manji

noun4

1. •
   A left-facing Japanese swastika, primarily used in Buddhism.
2. •
   A type of raised bed similar to a cot from South Asia.

   • Literally, 'He sat on a manji.' The manji is a small string bed. In the villages of the Punjab acknowledged leaders, spiritual and temporal, would commonly receive their followers seated on a manji. — 1990
3. •
   A Sikh religious administrative unit.

   • In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis. — 1993
4. •
   (UK, India) A captain or skipper of a boat.

   • I prevailed upon the mangee of a pinnace I found laying in the creek, awaiting the arrival of a gentleman hourly expected from Vizagapatam, to convey us up the river as far as Budge Budge […]. — 1808