How To Use Brahmin In A Sentence
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He collects antique Samurai swords, has owned a pet cobra and speaks with a high-flown Massachusetts Brahmin accent.
The Artlessness Of Art Thieves
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Usually, auspicious times for Hindu weddings are ascertained by Brahmin priests who are paid to consult the stars.
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Indian Brahmins being appointed as priests of the famous Pashupatinath temple would draw public outrage, a 'pujari' at the holy shrine has warned.
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This sense of time disturbs the novel's protagonist, a young Brahmin landlord called Jagannatha.
Hinduism Cast Against Modernity
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The mottled brown raptors I saw on the sixth are indeed immature Brahminy Kites.
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The walls of temples were carved with images of Portuguese visitors and Arab traders, of Brahmins honouring the Buddha and Buddhists worshipping Hindu deities.
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--- So it means the self proclaimed superior intelligence of the Tamil Brahmin is due to the Dravidian genes mixing with them.
Why are South Indians so smart?
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Religious texts and law books are modified to describe cow eating as unclean, and beef as well as other meat begins to disappear from the menus for Brahmins and the upper classes.
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On one hand, he counters the Brahminical scholars who negate Marxism on ceratin issues and also by differing with the certain principles of Marxism in general and the mechanical interpretation of Marxism by Indian Marxists in particular.
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Perhaps, I am one of the few South Indian Brahmins who has had a conducted tour of so many gurdwaras from a celebrated Sikh historian and possibly a Sikh theologian.
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The rise of Buddhism in ancient Indian society was considered by him as a revolution against Aryan Brahminism.
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Btw - this to vnv - bagara baingan is a completely different and yes, Andhra dish, in a thick strong masala gravy that also uses tamarind, onions, garlic too - the last two very rarely featured in Tamil Brahmin cooking
South Indian Baby Eggplant Curry
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SAKULĀ, or PAKULĀ, a brahmin matron of Sāvatthī, foremost of the Sisters who had the faculty of the 'Eye Celestial' (Ang. Nik, i.
Psalms of the Sisters
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I was recently invited to Gujrat in a function which followed our line and demanded reservation in government jobs, in proportion to our Brahmin populations.
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Brahminee bulls slain in the streets, and cartridges greased with the fat of cows, and Christian converts indemnified, and property not confiscated for loss of caste, -- and a frightful falling off in the benighting business generally; and the fierce Rajpoot grinds his white teeth, while Asirvadam the Brahmin plots, and plots, and plots.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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The "Mahabharata," the work of many hands, was begun about the fifth century B.C. under Brahmin influence, and in the folowing centuries received additions and modifications, in the interests now of Vishnuism now of Sivaism, till it assumed its final shape in the sixth century of the Christian Era.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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a Power it could not see or comprehend was gradually debased into what is now known as Brahminism, and the most repugnant, revolting, cruel, obscene and vicious rites ever practiced by savages or barbarians.
Modern India
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Siror at January 21, 2005 04:30 AM i know that kannada got derived from Tamil which is the oldest and originated in india but aryans(sankrits) migrated to india and settled down here. so we should not make any distinction between Tamil and Kannada and we are Dravidians and Indians and get rid out these Arayans(north indians, Brahmins from country) from india who are dominating us and they don't have any patriotism that is the reason why many north Indians and especially Brahmins settled down in foriegn countries like US, UK etc,..
Languagehat.com: HISTORY OF KANNADA.
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It is only after the worship, blood rites and kola dance of the resurrected rebel Bhoothas that the focus of the festivities shifts to the respectable courtyard and the brahmin priest sprinkles purificatory water and begins his ritual incantation.
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The following is taken from Rumer Godden's short story "The Oyster," about a young Indian, Gopal, of the Hindu Brahmin caste, who is happily studying in France and learning all things western.
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Her name is that of a brahmin gens – the Vāseṭṭhas – yet she is not called a brahmin in her own legend.
Psalms of the Sisters
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A curry in Tamil Brahmin cuisine is a dry sauteed preparation, not involving any gravy.
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Here, ancestral Brahmin priests give blessings with holy water and fill in records of family genealogies.
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Only Brahmins -- members of Hinduism's priestly caste -- are allowed to touch them.
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On every hillside, and in every valley, stood countless asters, coreopses, tansies, golden-rods, and the whole race of yellow flowers, like Brahminical devotees, turning steadily with their luminary from morning till night.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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Apart from their age all were close to forty except Clara, who was thirty-one and apart from the Boston Brahminism that linked Henry and Clover Adams, the quintet had little in common.
The Five of Hearts
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For example, at the Samayapuram temple near the shore of river Cauvery, rich agamic traditions are followed and all rituals are performed by Gurukkal of Brahmins.
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On the same mountain lived a Raksasa named Parasu, frightening the heavenly Brahmins.
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The Asian elephant featured strongly in Buddhism and Brahminism and the elephants were tamed and domesticated to be able to be used efficiently.
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The horse sacrifice, soma sacrifice, agricultural rituals and coronation of kings follow a ceremonial ritual that are explained in the Yajur Veda, mainly for the Brahmin class to follow and implement.
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The ruler belonged to Rai dynasty, a Shudra king, who was usurped by a Brahmin named Chach.
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Here, ancestral Brahmin priests - or pandas - give blessings with holy water and fill in records of family genealogies.
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For the Brahmins are hereditary keepers and masters of the language, hymns and mantras of the universe.
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Brahmins traditionally become priests in the Hindu religion.
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The name Brahmin was used in Boston in the 1800s to describe a cultured person from an established upper-class family, and was chosen by the
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It portrays life of fourteen brahmin households, all living in one-room-houses rented out by a tough Brahmin window, Rangamma.
Kamat's Potpourri
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Brahmins and ascetics play their part, but their roles are secondary to those of Ayodhya's ruling family, and the monkey and demon warriors.
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a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin
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The deification of the cow was undoubtedly linked with the rise of the priestly Brahmin caste in early Hinduism.
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On the day of his birth a Brahmin priest predicts his future greatness.
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As evidence of the river system's health, our skipper points out a 2m bull shark as it leaps skyward and a brahminy kite wheels overhead.
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Over a song or two, this vegetarian Brahmin boy, poor at English, and with a bunch of carrom groupies for friends, outstretches his arms to a background score.
Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
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Till the stone is lifted, and the Brahmins come down singing the songs that I know, and feed me with warm milk, and take me to the light again, I-- I-- _I_, and no other, am the Warden of the King's Treasure!
The Second Jungle Book
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Chapters two to six inclusive set forth the manner of life and regulation of conduct proper to the members of the three upper castes, who have been initiated into the Brahmin religion by the sin-removing ceremony known as the investiture with the sacred cord.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Brahmins and Jains go even further in this intermixture of faith and cookery, and shun everything that even looks like red meat: watermelon, tomatoes.
Cardiac
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As regards Mr. Pathak, Ms. Mayawati said a candidate from the Brahmin 'samaj' would contest the Lok Sabha poll from Unnao.
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Certainly, at both sets of stalls the procession would halt, garlands would be draped over the Brahmins and political candidates, and more coconuts cracked over the rath.
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Then, by chance, an Indian sirdar — a driver or overseer — learns that he is a Brahmin and can read Sanskrit.
'The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul'
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Addressing the convention on upper castes here, she said adequate representation was given to the Brahmins before the 2007 U.P. Assembly elections only after she was assured that the Brahmin 'samaj' would vote for the party.
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Ordinary rural women worship these non-Brahminical deities directly, unmediated by any priestly intervention.
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The term Brahmin has come to be used globally to describe those at the top of the heap with an attitude to match, as in Boston Brahmins.
Reversal of Fortune Isolates India's Brahmins
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Thus Indian society was governed, not by civil, but by ceremonially religious law; while, conversely, the nascent Indian religion ( "Brahminism") became not ethical but social in character.
The New World of Islam
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During a recent visit, I found liberals and intellectuals, jet-setters and slum dwellers, men and women, Brahmins and untouchables expressing this Hindu pride.
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Most Mariamman temples are humble shrines in villages, where non-Brahmins act as priest using non-agamic rituals.
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Response: This is an adult Brahminy kite, Haliastur indus, a medium-sized accipiter.
Mystery bird: Brahminy kite, Haliastur indus
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Their identity can only be guessed at by the symptoms of the possessed person, and also by the astrological calculations of our Brahmins.
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[691-1] Pilpay is supposed to have been a Brahmin gymnosophist, and to have lived several centuries before Christ.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
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Over 5,000 guests attended the Vedic ceremony where Brahmin priests chanted mantras.
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Her innate charm even at her age and her adeptness at being able to turn a situation, howsoever desperate, in her favour, catapult her from the degrading depths of poverty into a fairly comfortable Brahmin priestess.
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Most of these ‘fighting Brahmins’ were neither scholars nor literati.
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Brahmins traditionally become priests in the Hindu religion.
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In short, it took over, as far as possible, the customs, rites, and beliefs of brahminism, and the adoption of the brahminic way of life by a low caste seems to have been frequent though theoretically forbidden. '
Kafila
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The ancient Brahmins acknowledged one only Supreme Being; the Chinese associated no inferior being with the Divinity, nor had any idol until the times when the populace were led astray by the worship of Fo, and the superstitions of the bonzes.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Gurus may come from any caste group, and Brahmins need not be spiritual guides, though many are.
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Brahmins began to be described as cunning, parasitic exploiters and authors of the iniquitous caste system.
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But while Norton's lavish tribute may well have had a certain avuncular motive, it's evident that the fervor and clamor of young Kipling's balladry stirred the old Brahmin to his bones.
Who Was Kipling?
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The Brahmins were known for their tendency to absorb, assimilate and upgrade deities, not for exhibiting animus towards them.
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Both Sivaism and Vishnuism departed more and more strongly from tradition Brahminism, and assumed a decidedly sectarian character towards the older religion and also towards each other.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Buddha's fault was he preached a casteless society which challanged brahminical Manu Smriti-the four tier Varna System (which placed the brahmins on top of the ladder-Brahamin, Kshtriya, Vaisya and Shudra) -- As somebody said here brahmins made an attempt during British Rule to call themselves Aryans-brahmo samaj-Arya samaj were organanizations estbalished for this purpose-the British rejected this-so began India's freedom struggle-led (to give the devil its due, by brahmins).
Why are South Indians so smart?
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As the nationalist movement is valorized by the brahminism, so it is the case with Brahmin intellectuals and writers.
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These will be the new Brahmins, to be employed by elite firms like Gattaca, an aerospace company.
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The Brahmins in India possessed for a long time the theocratical power; that is to say, they held the sovereign authority in the name of Brahma, the son of God; and even in their present humble condition they still believe their character indelible.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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So much so, to give you one example, that in the great province of Madras, when the Montagu report was put into operation, it was thought necessary to protect the other Hindu castes from the monopoly which the Brahmins might otherwise secure, and so they actually enacted that 28 seats in the Madras legislature must be filled by Hindu members who were not Brahmins.
India
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In that sense, Ambedkar is a critique of dominant hegemonic Brahminism and majoritarian Hindu religion.
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For Nietzsche, Manu and his code of caste regulations became the basis for a theory of the superman, just as the brahmin and the Aryan fused to incarnate the notion of ‘pure blood.’
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Kali and thalagam are a unique combination in Tamil Brahmin cuisine.
Thiruvadirai Kali and Thalagam
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Elsewhere, where Hindus did convert, it was not the hoped-for Brahmins, but the powerless and disenfranchized lower castes and untouchables who made the change.
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The break up of the Vijayanagara empire had resulted in the satraps setting up their own separate kingdoms and the Brahmins were sought to legitimatise their rebel rule.
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Traditionally, the Brahmins, or the priestly class, are set at the top of the social pyramid.
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Buddhist bhikshus, for instance, never advised Emperor Ashoka on his dealings with his Hindu subjects, just as Brahmins refrained from directing the initiatives of Gupta kings towards the sanghas.
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Not to speak of its grosser phases, Hinduism, even in its highest form known as Brahminism, could not take root and flourish in countries where the caste system and the intricate network of social and domestic customs it implies do not prevail.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability