Brahmins Sentence Examples

He belonged to the Nambudri class of Brahmins.

Shortly after the Buddha's time the Brahmins had their sutras in Sanskrit, already a dead language.

He taught the existence of the Supreme God and founded the sect of the Smarta Brahmins.

All the new evidence tends to show that the struggle was being decided rather against than for the Brahmins.

But Brahmins by birth (not necessarily sacrificial priests, for they followed all sorts of occupations) were trying to oust the nobles from the highest grade.

Buddhism arose in countries where Sanskrit was never more than a learned tongue, and where the exclusive claims of the Brahmins had never been universally admitted.

See Picart, The Religion and Manners of the Brahmins.

These opposed a national resistance to the Macedonians, the fires of which were fanned by the Brahmins, but still the strong arm of the western people prevailed.

The second book continues the history of his conquests, and the third contains the victory over Porus, the relations with the Brahmins, the letter to Aristotle on the wonders of India, the histories of Candace and the Amazons, the letter to Olympias on the marvels of Farther Asia, and lastly the account of Alexander's death in Babylon.

Megasthenes also describes the Jews as the philosophers of Syria and couples them with the Brahmins of India.

It is also extensively practised in India, especially by one caste of Brahmins, the Joshi.

Some were named after exclusively Vedic deities; they formed the basis of the sacrificial calendar of the Brahmins; the old Indian names of the months were derived from them; their existence was pre-supposed in the entire structure of Hindu ritual and science.

Three hundred of the highest-caste Brahmins live with their families within the temple enclosure.

The man was an Avatar of Vishnu or Siva; his supreme apotheosis is now complete, and the Brahmins feel warranted in providing for him a niche in the orthodox pantheon."'

The two dominant sections of the population are the Namburi Brahmins and the Nairs or military caste.