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Battara is a name in their Pantheon, and this is an alteration of the Brahminic Avatar.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

But although this form of doctrine has ever since Sa@nkara's time been the one most generally accepted by Brahminic students of philosophy, it has never had any wide-reaching influence on the masses of India.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George

Returning from the East instructed in Brahminic lore, he travelled over the Roman world.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey

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

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 Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich)