According to the Vedas, it is not heredity that determines who is a brahmin, but rather, sattvic character and noble actions. |
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For the coming election, it has endorsed 86 upper-caste brahmin candidates, compared with 91 dalits. |
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For example, the village's three brahmin families an unusually small complement in northern India have three low-caste neighbours: some patels, chamars and yadavs, of a Hindu herder caste. |
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Caste was invented by the Hindu Brahmin or priestly group some 2,000 years ago. |
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Here, ancestral Brahmin priests give blessings with holy water and fill in records of family genealogies. |
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The ruler belonged to Rai dynasty, a Shudra king, who was usurped by a Brahmin named Chach. |
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Over 5,000 guests attended the Vedic ceremony where Brahmin priests chanted mantras. |
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The Brahmin priest of the village temple was not invited, and Marathi slokas replaced Sanskrit ones. |
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I don't know whether Satish had read the Bhagavad Gita, but he was a Hindu, a high-born Brahmin at that. |
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This means nobody is a Brahmin or Kshatriya or Vysya or Sudra throughout his or her life. |
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The deification of the cow was undoubtedly linked with the rise of the priestly Brahmin caste in early Hinduism. |
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It indicates his Brahmin status and that he is the king in the astral dimension. |
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The inscription engraved on it, in Brahmin script, evidences the historic importance of the pillar. |
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At the garbagriha, Raja convinced the Brahmin priest to turn on a light so we could see the lingam. |
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However, those who were engaged in this attempt have often uncritically accepted many Brahmin practices without sufficient study and preparation. |
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The Banteay Srei style emerged around 967, stimulated by the patronage of the Brahmin Yajnavaraha. |
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The zebu, or Brahmin was bred from the Indian subspecies of probably 6,000 years later. |
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I was recently invited to Gujrat in a function which followed our line and demanded reservation in government jobs, in proportion to our Brahmin populations. |
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On the day of his birth a Brahmin priest predicts his future greatness. |
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The direct evidence is that these low caste and untouchables performed exactly the same ceremony, of dipping in the holy waters, as any Brahmin or Hindu sage. |
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The applicant is a citizen of India and a high caste Hindu Brahmin. |
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I didn't realize that in part they were an engine for perpetuating the Brahmin class of New England. |
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However, many of the elements of the political and social system were incorporated from Hindu scriptures and were conducted by Brahmin priests. |
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The Brahmin presence in the Bengal Army was reduced because of their perceived primary role as mutineers. |
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Their early goals in that period were capturing the Ganpati and Shivaji festivals from Brahmin domination. |
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To the Brahmin, the lower animal kingdom is a vast masquerade of transmigratory souls. |
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Son of a Brahmin Vishravas and a demoness Kaikasi, and half-brother of Kubera, Ravana was a learned scholar and an ardent devotee of Shiva. |
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Women, however, are not eligible to undertake formal sannyasa, which according to Sankara is reserved for Brahmin men. |
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They became known in Washington for a Brahmin superciliousness, tending to cruelty, which did not endear them to those whose non-Brahmin backgrounds made them sensitive to it, such as Lyndon Johnson. |
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The lifestyle of Brahmin Tamang, Gurung, Tharu, Magar, Rai, Newar, Sherpa, Thakali, Chepang, Sunuwar, and Limbu has been demonstrated in the Museum. |
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When he returned to Bengal and was forced by his family to marry a Brahmin girl, he eventually had his marriage dissolved in order to return to his studies, and to be ordained. |
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While we consider India as polytheistic, monotheistic tradition which is at the root of his religious life is very old and draws from the origins of its rich Brahmin culture. |
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It may be that the tali, a heart-shaped golden ornament that in Hindu Brahmin marriage is tied by the bridegroom around the neck of the bride, took the place of rings. |
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The main antagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana, Ravana, was a Brahmin from his father's side and a Daitya from his mother's side. |
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A Brahmin in a mostly low-caste polity, Ms Jayalalitha is as nationalist as she is regionalist, and a fierce critic of the Tigers. The danger for Mr Karunanidhi is that Congress might drop him for Ms Jayalalitha. |
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Another icon, sometimes called Agastya but more likely the third deity of the Hindu trinity, Brahma, represents the god in the form of a bearded Brahmin sage. |
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Vinay Tiwari, a Brahmin landowner in the remote village of Harihar Patti, in a region of northern UP swept by Congress, is a speck of evidence for this. |
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Most of Kerala's Hindus, except its Brahmin community, eat fish, chicken, beef, pork, eggs, and mutton. |
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The Brahmin is famed for its vegan cuisine, especially varieties of sambar and rasam. |
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As a student, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw had planned to follow in her father's footsteps. He was a master brewer, in itself unusual for a Brahmin family from the state of Gujarat, which prohibits alcohol. |
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The power of the zamindars, who were mainly Brahmin or Rajput, was challenged in a series of peasant movements between 1919 and 1921, when Charan Singh was in his late teens. |
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The new owners were often Brahmin and Kayastha employees of the Company who had a good grasp of the new system, and, in many cases, some had prospered under it. |
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The Konkan, on the coast of the Arabian Sea, has its own type of cuisine, a homogeneous combination of Malvani, Goud Saraswat Brahmin, and Goan cuisines. |
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