Brahmans
- plural of Brahman.
Example Sentences
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Many of the orthodox brahmans shook off the dust of the polluted city from their feet and quitted Calcutta for a new residence across the Hooghly.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
Even the Hindu ascetics of these latter days are more numerously non-brahman than of old, for in theory only brahmans have reached the ascetical stage of religious development.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
The broad distinctive marks of Hindu practice, we may repeat, are the social usage of caste, and the employment of brahmans in religious ritual.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
Many learned brahmans, he says in the same pamphlet, are perfectly aware of the absurdity of idol worship, indicating that the knowledge belonged only to the scholars.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
See Transmigration.Religious ideas, Hindu, 7, 94, 104, 115, 117, 150.Religious ideas, New, v, 8, 9, 103, 150.Religious leaders not brahmans, 30-1, 249.Religious reformers, 22, 45-6, 49.Renaissance,
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
