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• a variation of Brahmanism.

Brahminism

American  

[brah-muh-niz-uhm] / ˈbrɑ məˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. Brahmanism.

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Other Word Forms

• Brahminist
  noun

Example Sentences

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)

From delving into the mysteries of the Brahminism of India, of ancestor-worship in Japan, of Confucianism in China, of Islamism in the far East, I have come back to the wonderful man of Nazareth.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

As most of those confined are Hindoos and profess Brahminism, they bathe several times a day, in a large tank filled with excellent water.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

This connects Buddhism with the doctrine of metempsychosis; a doctrine which the incarnations of Brahminism also suggest.

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

The germs of the Brahminism of the Puranas are the two great epics, the Ramayana, or the conquest of Hindostan by Rama, and the Mahabharata, or great war between the Sun and Moon dynasties.

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