What is "brachmans"

Usage examples of "brachmans".

But the gymnosophists are cited at the time of Alexander as an ancient sect already divided into Brachmans and Samaneans.

Megasthenes, an historian of repute in the days of Seleucus Nicanor, and who wrote particularly upon India, speaking of the philosophy of the ancients respecting natural things, puts the Brachmans and the Jews precisely on the same footing.

The Indian Brachmans seemed too great friends unto fire, who burnt themselves alive, and thought it the noblest way to end their dayes in fire.

That the Magi derived some of their most secret doctrines from the Indian Brachmans.