Brahmanical
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The Buddhacarita, Olivelle argues, is both an extension of Brahmanical texts and a potent challenge to them � repudiating Vedic conservatism and its emphasis on family units.
From Time Magazine Archive
He joined in the Brahmanical worship and sacrifices of his Rajput queens.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter
It is best perhaps for our purpose to follow an ancient Brahmanical writer, who is supposed to have lived about 400 b.c.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Wilder, Alexander
Purana, pōō-r�′na, n. one of a class of sacred poetical books in Sanscrit literature, forming with the Tantras the main foundation of the actual popular creed of the Brahmanical Hindus.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
As it could be still further punished for evil deeds by transmission into the lower animal forms, there naturally followed the Buddhistic and Brahmanical prohibition of slaying any created thing, except reptiles and fish.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
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