Brahmanical
adjective
relating to or characteristic of the doctrines or practices of Brahmanism or Brahmans.
Brahminic
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a word derived from
Brahmanical.
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a word derived from
Brahmin.
Example Sentences
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We may justly speak of a Brahminic, Buddhistic, Pagan, Judaic civilization, because the social or political systems designated by these appellations were intimately connected with a more or less exclusive theocratical formula.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
"Nature," he adds with Brahminic finality, "is always dull."
From Walking-Stick Papers by Robert Cortes Holliday
Of such men more or less consciously recognizing this law, there are in our time, not in the Christian world alone, but in the Buddhistic, Mahomedan, Confucian, and Brahminic world, not only thousands but millions.
From Bethink Yourselves! by V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich) Chertkov
The Tathatâ doctrine which was preached by As'vagho@sa oscillated between the position of this absolute non-essentialness of all dhammas and the Brahminic idea that something existed as the background of all these non-essential dhammas.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
It has been already suggested that the ideas conveyed by the terms Sramanoe and Gymnosophistoe are just as Brahminic as Buddhist, and, vice versâ, just as Buddhist as Brahminic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various
