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• a variation of Brahmanism.

Brahminism

American  

[brah-muh-niz-uhm] / ˈbrɑ məˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. Brahmanism.

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• Brahminist
  noun

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Brahminism

The germs of the Brahminism of the Puranas are the two great epics, the Ramayana, or the conquest of Hindostan by Rama, and the Mahabharata, or great war between the Sun and Moon dynasties.

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

Brahminism and Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity, Mahommedanism and Parseeism, the cult of the Taoists and Confucians, every belief that has been a great belief, that has led man captive, has come from the East.

From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)

Brahminism and Buddhism countenance it still more decidedly, and even go to the length of absolutely prohibiting the slaughter of animals.

From Bible Romances First Series by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Their language is Marathi and their creed an imperfect Brahminism.

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

Long before the Portuguese arrival Islamism had succeeded Brahminism and the Arab had supplanted the Hindu....

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Bourne, Edward Gaylord