What is "brahmans"

Usage examples of "brahmans".

First, the priests, whom they call Brahmans—creatures very like our own Magians.

Some Brahmans are noted for their mastery of those vedas that deal with, let us say, the god Mithra or with a semidivine hero like Rama.

Yet the gods that the Brahmans serve are taken very seriously by many people.

I had already made up my mind that I would talk religion only with Brahmans, holy men and kings.

Unfortunately, the Brahmans enjoy their little secrets quite as much as do our Magians, and so I could not find out how or from what it is made.

But then, I have never been able to figure out what, if anything, the Brahmans actually believe.

Although the merchant class is looked down upon by the warriors and Brahmans, most of the wealth of the Indian states is controlled by them and they are often courted by their social betters.

Of course, the Brahmans learn thousands and thousands of verses of the vedas.

It is certainly the way of those Aryan tribes whom Homer sang about in much the same way that the Brahmans of India sing of the heroes of their Aryan past.

But I was quite happy to accept Bimbisara’s ennoblement because, almost without exception, Indian rulers are of the warrior class and constantly challenge their nominal superiors, the Brahmans.

But now only low-class women who cater for the tastes of men are allowed to practice the sixty-four arts, which is terribly unfair, but you know the Brahmans .

Naturally, the common people never see us, and that includes the Brahmans,” she added firmly.

Certain Brahmans take a foolish line about the number of wives one can have, even though our religion is lenient in this matter.

All the Brahmans agree that it is Aryan in origin for the simple reason that the horse was unknown in this part of the world until the pale-skinned clansmen arrived from the north.

But the leading Brahmans at court did question me closely about those Persian sacrifices that resemble theirs.