422 examples of brahman in sentences

The dead body this ring belonged to was that of an ancient Brahman, who, in his time, was chief of that sect.

The Brahman Wife and Her Seven Sons XX.

Once upon a time there was a town called Atpat, and in it there lived a poor Brahman.

Wealth came to the Brahman and he grew richer and richer, and at last the queen of the land sent for him.

The Brahman said, "My daughters are poor; you will make them slaves or maid-servants."

But the Brahman said, "Before I eat or drink, I must tell you my story."

The Brahman thought this very disrespectful and went off in a great rage to the house of his other daughter, who had married a minister.

Then the Brahman ate and drank and went back to his own house.

He went away delighted, and promised to worship the sun in the way the wood-fairies had told the Brahman.

The old woman went away crying with joy, and promising to worship the sun in the way the wood-fairies had instructed the Brahman.

So she fell at the elder Brahman's feet and said, "We have been very wicked and have deserved to become poor.

In it there lived a miserably poor Brahman.

So she told the Brahman woman to fast every Friday through the month of Shravan.

Now the Brahman woman had a rich brother living in the same town, who one day invited one thousand Brahmans to dine.

In it there lived a poor Brahman who had three daughters-in-law.

When the Brahman had left, his little daughter-in-law followed his orders as best she could.

Then the old Brahman guessed that the beggar was Saturn in disguise, and he also understood why, when the other two daughters-in-law gave him nothing and were cursed by him, there was nothing for dinner.

The unromantic ideal of the ancient Hindoo is romantically illustrated in a story told in the Hitopadesa of a Brahman named Wedasarman.

Before going to sleep, the Brahman indulged in these pleasant reveries: "If I sell this dish of meal I shall probably get ten farthings for it.

The potter hearing the crash, ran to see what was the matter, and the Brahman was ignominiously thrown out of the hall.

Come, don't let us separate from each other with sarcasms, but rather let us allow that religion, like Janus, or, better still, like the Brahman god of death, Yama, has two faces, and like him, one very friendly and one very sullen.

A reluctance to sacrifice herself on the funeral pile of her dead husband was, till the practice of Suttee was abolished by the British government, one of the most immoral traits which a Brahman widow could exhibit.

And, O Brahman, how did the highly blessed Draupadi, stricken with woe, devoted to her lords, and ever adoring the Deity, spend her days unrecognised?" Brahma VadiniNilakantha explains this as Krishna-kirtanasila.

The Hindoo lawgiver Manu, who professed to have received his institutes from the creator Brahman, informs us that the wisdom, the energy, the strength, the sight, and the vitality of a man who approaches a woman in her courses will utterly perish; whereas, if he avoids her, his wisdom, energy, strength, sight, and vitality will all increase.

Similarly, after a Brahman boy has been invested with the sacred thread, he is for three days strictly forbidden to see the sun.

422 examples of  brahman  in sentences