| In case your Hinduism is a little rusty, the Brahmans are the priest caste in traditional Hindu society. |
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| The appeal of wandering mendicant religious teachers like the Buddha lay partly in the contrast between their message and that of the Brahmans. |
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| At the top were the Brahmans, priests of the sacrificial religion and intellectuals. |
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| The drovers are off to bring in the Brahmans, Droughtmasters, Angus and Shorthorns. |
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| Next Pura Jagatnatha, very recent construction, is a place of prayer with inevitable Brahmans. |
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| I had the privilege to attend ablutions of the deity in His narthex by two Brahmans. |
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| For many years women were not allowed to follow the cortege, and only the wives of Brahmans could walk around the pyre. |
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| Before Christ, it radiated upon the Indian Brahmans, the Persian Magi, the Judean Essenes, on the Greeks, on Pythagoras and Plato. |
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| The site gathers several pertaining to worship buildings accessible to alone Brahmans. |
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| The site had been used as a place of worship for many years before the Brahmans transformed it into a specifically Hindu-oriented site. |
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| The king was subordinate in some respects to the Brahmans, though at one time both sometimes were chosen from the Kshatriya, or warrior, caste. |
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| The usual mustering scene shows tawny grass and anthills and a mob of red Brahmans moving slowly along, but over the page are stockmen with baseball caps and heavy shades. |
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| With the exception of the Brahmans and the untouchables the middle level was extremely heterogeneous and often unidentifiable within the four-fold varna. |
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| Shrivaishnava Brahmans are much given to scholarly pursuits and have earned for themselves the honorary title of acharya, or, in Tamil, ayyangar, often spelled iyengar. |
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| Learned Brahmans were given endowments of land. |
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| The Brahmans were furnished with everything they needed as a spontaneous gift of the earth, partaking of fresh vegetables and fruits in season which were brought to them by their countrymen dwelling below them. |
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| Nehru was born to a family of Kashmiri Brahmans, noted for their administrative aptitude and scholarship, who had migrated to Delhi early in the 18th century. |
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| The distinctions, particularly between the Brahmans and the other castes, were in theory sharper, but in practice it now appears that social restrictions were not so rigid. |
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| The Veda is also regarded as the basis of all the later shastra texts, which stress the religious merits of the Brahmans including, for example, the medical corpus known as the Ayurveda. |
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| The Brahmans then undressed and took a bath, after which they put garlands on their heads around their long hair and proceeded to the temple, intent on their hymns. |
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| Ylang-Ylang is part of the sacred balms employed by the Brahmans. |
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| Of course Brahmans officiated at the entry of the artificial cave. |
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| The Brahmans, whatever their worldly avocations, claim to have by virtue of their birth the authority to teach the Veda, perform ritual sacrifices for others, and accept gifts and subsistence. |
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| It has remained a cardinal principle that only Brahmans have the authority to perform the most important rituals that preserve and renew the sociocosmic order. |
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