Sentence:  ‘I may be man of commerce in your eyes, Miss—and in this age of evil, who is not?—but are you aware that eleven generations of my ancestors have been <WSD>pandas</WSD> at one of Nabadwip's most famous temples?' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A brahmin who acts as the superintendent of a particular ghat or temple, as a hereditary position. (from 20th c.)