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Definition of Brahminical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brahminical

Literary usage of Brahminical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Harbottle, Thomas Benfield, d. 1904 (1904)
"They profess a reformed form of Hinduism, rejecting caste and various brahminical superstitions. Under Govind Rai. towards the end of the seventeenth ..."

2. The Philosophy of History: In a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Vienna by Friedrich von Schlegel (1835)
"Of the Institutions of the Indians—thc brahminical caste, anil the hereditary priesthood.—Of the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, considered as thc ..."

3. Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and Religion by Ernest Binfield Havell (1905)
"... declare that “sacrifice in its totality is the bark which carries one ‘to heaven “, and that the brahminical teaching is the only means of ..."

4. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch (1860)
"... STILL LESS FROM brahminical, MYTHS: THE COMMON ELEMENT IS THE ORIGINAL POETRY OF LANGUAGE. THE Hellenic origines have no connexion with Egypt; ..."

5. India in 1880 by Sir Richard Temple (1880)
"... rock-cut temples, pagodas and monasteries—Ancient frescoes—Sacred mountains of the Jains—Hindu or brahminical structures—Mention of the finest ..."

6. India in 1880 by Richard Temple (1881)
"... rock-cut temples, pagodas and monasteries—Ancient frescoes—Sacred mountains of the Jains—Hindu or brahminical structures—Mention of the finest ..."

7. The history of drink by Samuelson, James, 1829-, James Samuelson (1878)
"... AND brahminical LITERATURE—MODERN INDIA. AVE are now about to consider the drinking propensities of our own remote ancestry—of those from whom most of ..."

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