And after they had finished their dinner, the king dismissed the Bráhmans to their apartments and sent for the loveliest lady of his court.
Brâhmans should possess tranquillity of mind, self- restraint, forbearance, contentment and similar virtues.
They should observe the great festivals in honour of the Deity in the temples, and should distribute various gifts among Brâhmans who are deserving objects (of generosity).
Brâhmans and holy men (Sâdhus) should be fed on festival days at sacred places of pilgrimage.
Now by chance some Brâhmans came to meet him, who begged from him the horses that were drawing his chariot.
Then the king ordered some Brâhmans knowing the auspicious marks of women, to go and see the maiden, whether she would be a suitable wife for him or not.
The permission to Brâhmans to make money by theft is of course not lawful; it is inferred from the well-known pretension of the Brâhmanical caste to be owners of the whole earth.
That town exhibited a festival attire, being adorned with hoisted flags and manifold banners, the citizens looking on and the Brâhmans praising the monarch with hails and benedictions.
The king rejoiced, ordered his officers who stood in charge of such matters: 'Go and quickly present the Brâhmans with a delicious meal.
The proper, though weak, means for Brâhmans of gaining wealth is receiving gifts: and people here are not charitable.
And should the victim killed in sacrifice really go to heaven, should we not expect the Brâhmans to offer themselves to be immolated in sacrifice?
Pray, do not destroy for his fault innocent people, women and children, the old and the sick, the Brâhmans and the poor!
Srâddha is that which is given in faith to Brâhmans for the sake of the Fathers.
An oblation by Brâhmans to their ancestor transcends an oblation to the deities;" and yet we are told that no Indo-European nation seems to have made a religion of the worship of the dead.
The three Bráhmans take her body to the cemetery and burn it.
A dispute then arose among the Bráhmans as to which was entitled to the maiden's hand.
For Bráhmans strength from Heaven derive, And warriors bow when Bráhmans strive.
For a full account of the early contests between the Bráhmans and the Kshattriyas, see Muir’s Original Sanskrit Texts (Second edition) Vol.
With duteous care he loves to sit By Bráhmans skilled in Holy Writ.
Honour true Bráhmans for my sake, And constant offerings duly make, With fire-oblations and with flowers, To all the host of heavenly powers.
People and Bráhmans flocked to meet Their monarch ere he gained the street.
Veda means originally knowing or knowledge, and this name is given by the Bráhmans not to one work, but to the whole body of their most ancient sacred literature.
With Rishyaśring the forms to guide, The Bráhmans to their task applied, At that great offering of the steed Their lofty-minded king decreed.
And the great pomp the Bráhmans led With Saint Vaśishṭha at their head.
These ceremonies are still regarded as essential to the welfare of deceased persons, and their celebration is marked by magnificent feasts, to which relations and a host of Bráhmans are invited.
At present the Bráhmans alone, and those who claim to be Kshatriyas, have a right to wear this thread.
But, although he sought information by consulting both Bráhmans and Europeans, he was wholly unable for some time to satisfy his curiosity as to the nature of these books.
And stranger Bráhmans quickly call To this great rite that welcomes all.
Bráhmans who read shall gather hence The highest praise for eloquence.
With Rishyaśring the forms to guide, The Bráhmans to their task applied, At that great offering of the steed Their lofty-minded King decreed.
Between the rites some Bráhmans spent The time in learned argument, With ready flow of speech, sedate, And keen to vanquish in debate.
That largess pleased those Bráhmans well, Who bade the prince his wishes tell.
It was considered among the Brāhmans a sign of holiness to wear matted or platted hair.
Now these eight Brāhmans were recognizers of signs; it was by them that the dream on the night of conception had been interpreted.
The Samaṇas are therefore the true Brāhmans, ‘Brāhmans by saintliness of life.
It is quite true that genuine moral excellence is really innate; but the meaning of the Christian doctrine is expressed in another and more rational way by the theory of Metempsychosis, common to Brâhmans and Buddhists.
And this know well: A vow to Brâhmans made, If unfulfilled, works special woe to him Who made the vow.
The Br[=a]hmans soon took advantage of the growth of religious ideas among a people naturally pious and superstitious.
But with Br[=a]hmans the perfect saint is not so solitary and independent in his spiritual pre-eminence.
For there can be no doubt that different lines of philosophical speculation were developed by the Br[=a]hmans at a very early period.
With the Br[=a]hmans existence in the abstract is not an evil.
That of the Br[=a]hmans is in Sanskrit (from Rig-veda iii.
The numerous Sûtras now extant contain the distilled essence of all the knowledge which the Brâhmans have collected during centuries of meditation.
They added passages, moreover, which assert the divine claims of Brâhmans and the inferiority of the rest of mankind.
Such assertions are little more than rhetorical flourishes, for Brâhmans never were either so omnipotent or so unamiable as the Code would represent them; nor were the Sûdras ever so degraded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hmans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
