489 examples of brahmin in sentences

The Brahmin philosophers also express the unalterable fixity of innate character in a mystical fashion.

Our billiard-marker, too, a high-caste Brahmin who had served on our side in the Afghan campaigns of 1839-42 in the capacity of a spy, a man of cunning and intelligence, warned us in unmistakable terms of the increasing disaffection among the sepoys of Ferozepore, and stated his opinion that the spirit of mutiny was rife among them.

As a Kulin, or pedigreed Brahmin, he is naturally prone to magnify the prestige of his order.

Brahmin pride is outraged by the advancement of men belonging to inferior castes.

Many of the lowest castes are rebelling against Brahmin arrogance.

What is the snobbery which degrades our English character but the Indo-German Sudra's reverence for his Brahmin?

A Bengali Brahmin is still with us who directs one of the greatest contracting firms in the empire.

The reason of this is said to be the following:"One of the rulers of this palace once asked a Brahmin what would become of the soul of any one who died in the palace.

The Brahmin answered that it would go to heaven.

But on asking the hundredth time, the Brahmin lost patience, and answered that it would go into a donkey."

As we passed the portal we found ourselves looking upon a large reservoir, or tank, as they call them here, which long ago was blessed by Nizamu-Din, one of the holiest and most renowned of the Brahmin saints, so that none who swims in it is ever drowned.

[Illustrations: GROUP OF FAMOUS BRAHMIN PUNDITS] Mark Twain says that there is no danger from germs in the sacred water of the Ganges, because it is so filthy that no decent microbe will live in it; and that just about describes the situation.

Nearly every cook in India is a Brahmin, which is a matter of almost imperative necessity, because no man can partake of food cooked or even touched by persons of lower caste.

It is a popular delusion that every Brahmin is a priest, when the fact is that they are so numerous that not more than a small percentage is employed in religious functions.

That his meals must be cooked either by persons of his own caste or a Brahmin.

The other half are largely composed of foreigners or belong to the Brahmin castes.

The natives are not compelled to send their children to school and the officials tell me that if it were attempted there would be great trouble, chiefly because of the Brahmin priests, who, as I have already intimated, are decidedly opposed to the education of the masses.

At almost the same time, although in another place, several of the leading thinkers and scholars of the Brahmin caste were discussing the same subject with the same purpose and from the same point of view.

But before he had accomplished much he died, and his mantle fell upon Keshab Chunder Sen, a man of great learning, talent and worth, the son of one of the most conservative families of the Brahmin caste, born and brought up in a fetid atmosphere of superstition and idolatry.

It is not necessary to be a Brahmin or to worship Siva or Krishna or any other of the Hindu gods, nor even to believe in them.

There are in Benares 2,000 temples and innumerable shrines, 25,000 Brahmin priests, monks, fakirs and ascetics, and it is visited annually by more than half a million pilgrimsa larger number than may be counted at Mecca or Jerusalem, or at any other of the sacred cities of the world.

[Illustration: A HINDU ASCETICBENARES] Occasionally some reformer appears who endeavors to rebuke the depravity and appeals to the thinking members of the Brahmin sect to restore the ancient philosophy and morality of their fathers.

Vedic, Moslem, Buddhist, Brahmin have been nursed and flourished and have decayed within the same walls.

BRAHMIN CASTE OF NEW ENGLAND, term used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in Elsie Venner to describe an intellectual aristocracy: "Our scholars come chiefly from a privileged order just as our best fruits come from well-known grafts.

We can see them allNance, glowing with excitement, her Brahmin-like, aristocratic beauty heightened by a dash of natural colour, quite different from the rouge she might use later; Mrs. Voss, sleepy, comfortable, and well pleased; and Mrs. Oldfield, full of importance and maternal solicitude.

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