Word Finder - brahmin

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A member of the Hindu priestly caste, one of the four varnas or social groups based on occupation in ancient Hindu society.

synonyms

• brahmana

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One who has realized or attempts to realize Brahman, i.e. God or supreme knowledge.

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A scholar, teacher, priest, intellectual, researcher, scientist, knowledge-seeker, or knowledge worker.

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A member of a social and cultural elite, especially in the New England region of the USA.

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A learned person of refined taste and mild manners.

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Scholarly.

A Brahmin, leaving home, left his daughter in charge of an ichneumon, which he had long cherished.

The Orloff, stolen by a French soldier from the eye of an idol in a Brahmin temple, stolen again from him by a ship's captain, was bought by Prince Orloff for £90,000, and given to the empress Catharine II.

They are only alike in the fact that in each case a moral cause is given for the position in which the individual finds himself now; and the moral cause is his own act, In the popular belief, followed also in the brahmin theology, the bridge between the two lives was a minute and subtle entity called the soul, which left the one body at death, through a hole at the top of the head, and entered into the new body.

In the capital a curious admixture of early Brahminical influence is still noticeable, and no act of public importance takes place without the assistance of the divinations of the Brahmin priests.

A black snake came up and was killed by the ichneumon, mistakenly killed, in its turn, by the Brahmin on his coming back.

The Greeks do not mention him and the Brahmin books ignore him, but the Buddhist chronicles and legends tell us much about him.

About midnight Subhadra, a brahmin philosopher of Kusinara, came to ask some questions of the Buddha, but Ananda, fearing that this might lead to a longer discussion than the sick teacher could bear, would not admit him.

But the Buddha, while rejecting the sacrifices and the ritualistic magic of the brahmin schools, the animistic superstitions of the people, the asceticism and soultheory of the Jains, and the pantheistic speculations of the poets of the pre-Buddhistic Upanishads, still retained the belief in transmigration.

The dog, the cat, the pig, the domestic fowl (which is not very obviously related to the bantam of the woods), the buffalo, a smaller breed than that met with in the Malayan Peninsula, and in some districts bullocks of the Brahmin breed and small horses, are the principal domestic animals.

He was an intellectual Brahmin.

He attached himself first to a brahmin sophist named Alara, and afterwards to another named Udraka, from whom he learnt all that Indian philosophy had then to teach.

The farmer, a wealthy brahmin, said to him, "Why do you come and beg ?

There the Brahmin invites the god to dwell within the image, specially made hollow to contain him, "performing the ceremony of adhivasa or inhabitation, after which he puts in the eyes and the prana, i.e.

It had been supposed on the authority of late priestly texts, where boasts of persecution are put forth, that the cause of the decline of Buddhism in India had been Brahmin persecution.