The highest of the four main Hindu castes the priestly caste

Usage examples of brahmin.

Hence the begetting of a son is a religious duty, particularly for a Brahmin, and is one of the three debts to which he is bound during life.

Rama saw a group of Nagas converge, hissing, on an unarmed brahmin mother and her two shaven-headed sons.

Blackmail her by telling his fellow tantriks about kidnapping brahmin orphans for her?

A few saffron-and-green-clad bodies, as well as a white-clad, tonsured brahmin body or two, also lay beside them, with trishuls embedded in them.

She bent over the energetic flames fueled by prodigious amounts of ghee and the remains of the brahmin boy she had sacrificed earlier.

The chaukat was cold and empty, the last bones of the dead brahmin boy gone, the chamber dark and silent.

We are sworn to protect the seers and brahmin classes with our lives, just as they are sworn to teach us all knowledge and guide us spiritually.

One asserts the right of a brahmin to demand dakshina from a kshatriya.

Vishwamitra chanted aloud a mantra too arcane and complex for any brahmin to decipher.

Rama and Lakshman found themselves transformed into the spitting likeness of two shaven-pated chotti-sprouting brahmin acolytes, while Vishwamitra had become a paunchy, jolly-looking, red-faced pundit dressed in ritual saffron.

But an ordinary brahmin acolyte could hardly speak of such things, so he held his tongue, seething.

Had the brahmarishi been any ordinary brahmin or purohit, his head would lie at his feet by now, never mind the sin of killing a brahmin.

Vishnu-avatar Parasurama had the right idea, hewing down kshatriyas with his ax, except he should have taken his blade to brahmin necks instead.

Rama enjoyed watching the brahmacharya novice relish the sour juice with the satisfaction of a palace brahmin finishing his tenth glass of bhaang at a Holi feast.

Later, with the Hindu shift toward pacifism and nonviolence, the brahmin, or priestly caste, became predominant, with kshatriyas shifting into the second-highest position from around the fifth century A.