Brahmana
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of Brahmana
From the Sanskrit word brāhmaṇa
Example Sentences
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Afterwards a bed, with its furniture, is brought; and the giver sits down near the Brahmana, who has been invited to receive the present.
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The Brahmana shows how, in Hindostan, the lower animals became vicarious substitutes for man in sacrifice, as the fawn of Artemis or the ram of Jehovah took the place of Iphigenia or of Isaac.
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He was an Indian Brahmana and a great Vedic scholar and apostle.
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Like the other Vedas it is divided into Samhita, Brahmanas and Upanishads, representing the spiritual element and its magical and nationalistic development.
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Connections of that sort were easily invented at random by the compilers of the Brahmanas in their existing form.
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