Brahminism
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We have just the same literary fall as happened in India from Brahminism to Buddhism; a twaddling flow of words after a noble inspiration.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
In Buddhism, as opposed to Brahminism, there is a greater tenderness of animal life in general, whilst less respect is paid to the ox-tribe in particular.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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 Robert Green Ingersoll
As most of those confined are Hindoos and profess Brahminism, they bathe several times a day, in a large tank filled with excellent water.
Four great patriarchs are the hypothetical progenitors of the four primary Afghan divisions—though it is uncertain whether any such quaternion be more of an historical reality than the four castes of Brahminism.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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