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Brahminism

American  
[brah-muh-niz-uhm] / ˈbrɑ məˌnɪz əm /

noun

  1. Brahmanism.


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Thus taught Brahminism, Budhism, Persianism, and other religious systems, before the dawn of Christianity.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

If we call the worship of dead men deified, Euhemerism, it is the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, to which the Euhemerist elements of the present Brahminism are to be attributed.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Besides which, it by no means follows, that because Brahminism is, comparatively speaking, recent, Buddhism must be ancient.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Brahminism has given birth to Buddhism; Mahometanism is parted into the Arabian and European Khalifates; the Greek schism into the Russian, Constantinopolitan, and Bulgarian autocephalous fragment; Protestaritism into its multitudinous diversities.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

The Brahminism of the "Institutes of Menu," the oldest Indian code of laws, is simpler than that of the epics.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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