Then as that Brßhman was being led off to the place of execution in order that he should be put to death, a fish in the market laughed aloud, though it was dead.
That trivial circumstance threw the king into a passion, and he gave orders that the Brßhman should be put to death) for jealousy interferes with discernment.
It is impossible to say of their author that he was Brâhman or Sûfî, Vedântist or Vaishnavite.
Some of these emanate from a Hindu, some from a Mohammedan source, and claim him by turns as a Sûfî and a Brâhman saint.
The Brâhman priest goes from house to house and initiates people into faith: Alas!
At Azimghur, in 1835, a Brâhman "threw himself down a well, that his ghost might haunt his neighbour.
But the Bráhman who was so fastidious about eating would not touch it, but stopped his nose.
But the Bráhman would not abandon his fixed determination to commit suicide, for wealth is dearer to the miser than life itself.
A dhobí, or washerman, is of much lower caste than a Bráhman or a Khshatriya.
Thus did the king by his wisdom recover to the Bráhman his wealth which had been taken away from the root of the tree, knowing that that simple grew in such spots.
A wealthy merchant provided a Bráhman with a lodging near his own house, and every day gave him a large quantity of unhusked rice and other presents and in course of time he received like gifts from other great merchants.
In it there lived a rich sacrificing Bráhman named Vishnusvámin.
And while all were feasting around him, the Bráhman who was fastidious about eating along of the company did not eat, but sat there with his face puckered up with disgust.
The Brâhman said: 'Thy Reverence ought not to urge me.
We have been delivered by the prince to a Brâhman who is in want of money.
Excited with joy and surprise, next day at day-break he went into the presence of Visvantara, feigning to be a Brâhman come to him as a mendicant.
The story of the Brâhman has the appearance of being the clumsy invention of some monk engaged in giving lessons of morality and in want of some story to illustrate the sinfulness of theft.
That Brâhman came to me from afar, bringing to me the present of his sentences and filled with hope.
Go, and having done for that Brâhman what he longs for, return soon; meanwhile I will dress your funeral pile.
The Brāhman went to a rich farmer, and started a conversation thus: “Whose bullocks hereabout do you think the strongest?
Long ago, when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares, the Bodisat became a wealthy Brāhman of the north-west country.
But all of them were not able to agree with one accord; three did not give up the world; the other four made Kondanya the Brāhman their leader, and took the vows.
In the town of Devîkoṭṭa there lived a Brâhman of the name of Devaśarman.
And then a Brâhman will come to my house, and will give me his beautiful daughter, with a large dowry.
Therefore I say, ‘He who rejoices over plans for the future will come to grief, like the Brâhman who broke the pots.
Then Harisvámin, the father, promised his daughter to the Bráhman possessed of magic power, and set the marriage day seven days hence.
Four Bráhman brothers, sons of a very poor man, leave home to beg.
Ignorant of what her husband and her son had done, she questioned this Bráhman about the past and the future, and at length promised him her daughter's hand on the same seventh day.
But the poet evidently wishes to represent a Brâhman living at court, who has an argument ready for anything and everything that is likely to please his king.
If in the house of any Brâhman the meals are cooked and served up by a woman, they should not go there to ask for food, but should ask for it at some other house.
He who is by birth a Brâhman should on no account drink water from a leathern vessel; nor should he ever eat garlic, onions, etc.
Having established a school for giving instruction, some learned Brâhman should be appointed over it.
The last consisted of rice or other grain which the Bráhman was to offer every day outside his house in the open air.
Again, O best of kings, give ear: My saving words attentive hear, And listen to the tale of old By that illustrious Bráhman told.
And servants in fair garments dressed Waited upon each Bráhman guest.
Thus streched, to force redress for wrongs To men of Bráhman birth belongs, Not those upon whose kingly head The consecrating drops are shed.
Saccharum Munja is a plant from whose fibres is twisted the sacred string which a Bráhman wears over one shoulder after he has been initiated by a rite which in some respects answers to confirmation.
The Bráhman bowed in turn and cried, “May fortune never leave thy side.
A Bráhman might marry a woman of the military or kingly class next below him, and the female offspring of such a marriage would belong to a mixed caste, and might be lawfully solicited in marriage by a man of the military class.
Enter a YOUNG BRÁHMAN carrying bundles of ku[S']a-grass for the use of the sacrificing priest.
Bráhman like you could not possibly give way to such weakness.
Huck; "they done that last summer, when Bill Turner got drownded; they shoot a cannon over the water, and that makes him come up to the top.
They tramped gayly along, over decaying logs, through tangled underbrush, among solemn monarchs of the forest, hung from their crowns to the ground with a drooping regalia of grape-vines.
Shortly before ten o'clock he came out into an open place opposite the village, and saw the ferryboat lying in the shadow of the trees and the high bank.
All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene.
At last he got up cautiously, on his knees, and went searching among the grass and the flickering reflections flung by the camp-fire.
Not unfrequently Br[=a]hman priests are invited to take part in their marriage ceremonies.
To learn thy welfare, dearest friend, The King will many a Bráhman send.
Soon as the King these words had said, To Kaśyap's son the Bráhman sped.
As with his guides his steps he bent, That Bráhman high of worth, A flood of rain from heaven sent That gladdened all the earth.
I see the best of Bráhman race, And night to glorious morn gives place.
No Bráhman there was found unfit To speak with eloquence and wit.
But Che’ Wan Âhman knew that many Pahang battles had been won without the aid of gunpowder or bullets, or even kris and spear.
Thus was a plain lesson taught, by Che’ Wan Âhman to the people of Pahang, as a warning to dreamers of dreams.
Hence in later times bráhman is used collectively for the Veda, the sacred word.
Heaven is said to belong to Bráhman alone (Atharva-veda X.
There we read of 'the oldest or greatest Bráhman which rules everything that has been or will be.
In Málava there were two Bráhman brothers, and the wealth inherited from their father was left jointly between them.
In the Kathá Sarit Ságara it is related that a Bráhman told his foolish son one evening that he must send him to the village early on the morrow, and thither the lad went, without asking what he was to do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
