The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brahmanic \Brah*man"ic\, -ical \-ic*al\, Brahminic \Brah*min"ic\, ical \*ic*al\,a. Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship.
Usage examples of "brahmanic".
Among those boons was his elevation to the stature of a master of brahmanic power, a level of shakti comparable only to that which is wielded by the Seven Seers, the brahmarishis like myself who have been ordained by Brahma himself to oversee the smooth functioning and harmony of the three worlds.
Guru Vashishta has already extolled the story of his ascension from a bold warrior king to the exalted brahmanic stature he holds today.
They needed to achieve the fullest flow of brahmanic power, and to have their aatmas strengthened so they could contain and endure the rush of shakti the way a river expands its banks to accommodate a superior flow.
This is a creation of the sage, a man possessed by some brahmanic sorcery.
Precisely herein consists the fundamental distinction of the Christian from the Brahmanic doctrine of human destiny.
The five hundred million Brahmanic and Buddhist believers hold that all the gods, men, demons, and various grades of animal life occupying this immeasurable array of worlds compose one cosmic family.
A few quotations may serve to illustrate the Brahmanic attempts at winning this one thing needful, the knowledge which yields exemption from all incarnate lives.
Hatred of earthly life, contempt for the flesh, the notion of an essential and irreconcilable warfare of soul against body, are Brahmanic and Manichaan, not Zoroastrian.
Throughout the immense kingdoms of the East, where the Brahmanic and Buddhist religions hold sway over six hundred millions of men, the notion of yadasanna that is, the merit instantaneously obtained when at the point of death fully prevails.
The Brahmanic as well as the Buddhist thinker relies on obtaining salvation by knowledge.
We remember an old Brahmanic poem brought from the East by Ruckert and sweetly resung in the speech of the West full of encouragement to those who shall die.
Although disapproving of the Brahmanic austerities as an end, he practised them during six years, in order to subdue the senses.