Brahman

Examples

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• In bringing together Fielding, Aziz, Mrs. Moore, Adela, and Professor Godbole, a Brahman, the otherwise familiar routines of afternoon tea become strange and foreign, an event to be experienced for the first time by the host and his English and Indian guests.

  Academic text (2016)

• Shankaradeva was an important social reformer, He believed you don't need a high caste Brahman priest to connect you with God.

• One was a high-caste Brahman.

  Academic text (1990)

• So you might think, for instance, about the Brahman class being above the Kshatriya class in in post conquest India, right?

• Finally, she prevailed upon her husband and his brother to assist her in her return to her former husband and caste as a Brahman.

  Academic text (1991)

• Yet all the members of the various castes—Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra—belong to the same race.

  Academic text (1995)

• The guru of this earliest period was an ascetic teacher of the highest priestly, or Brahman, caste, whose authority was largely vested in his knowledge of the sacred texts.

  Academic text (2008)

• The Brahmans could explain away such complaints; she was well acquainted with their explanations, and furthermore, she believed that they were right; she just wasn't in the market for theological justifications, not anymore.

  Fiction book (1990)

• You are born a Brahman, a Kshatriya, or a Vaishya, destined, whatever your talents and interests, to be a scholar or priest, a warrior or statesman, a farmer or tradesman.

  Academic text (2004)

• As a Brahman, she is expected to perform rituals and uphold religious teachings.

Synonyms

B

brahmin

vsBrahman

9.5

A person from the highest Hindu caste who works as a priest or scholar

is the same group described more neutrally without stressing priestly role

Surface Forms

Etymology