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Brahmanism

noun
1.
The religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism.  Synonym: Brahminism.
2.
The religious beliefs of ancient India as prescribed in the sacred Vedas and Brahmanas and Upanishads.  Synonym: Brahminism.






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"Brahmanism" Quotes from Famous Books



... glories of the monarch and the virtues, wealth and loyalty of his people. Dasaratha was the father of Rama Chandra, the hero of the epic. A period of Buddhist supremacy followed the death of the last king of the Solar dynasty. On the revival of Brahmanism Ajodhya was restored by King Vikramaditya (c. 57 B.C..) Kosala is also famous as the early home of Buddhism, and of the kindred religion of Jainism, and claims to be the birthplace of the founders of both these faiths. The Chinese traveller, Hsuan Tsang, in the 7th century, found ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... are not so many as those even of Mohammedanism, and that instead of being the most numerous of the religions (so-called) of the world, it is only entitled to occupy the fifth place, ranking below Christianity, Confucianism, Brahmanism, and Mohammedanism, and followed, some distance off, by Taoism. To make a table of percentages of mankind, and to assign to each system its proportion, are to seem to be wise where we are deplorably ignorant; and, moreover, if our means of information were much better than they ...
— Chinese Literature • Anonymous



Words linked to "Brahmanism" :   faith, religion, religious belief, Hinduism, Hindooism



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