Meanings of brahmins in английском

If he be in Hindoostan, his brahmins will wash him in the sacred waters of the Ganges, while reciting a prayer.

The officiating priests were brahmins, the custom and the festival-ofwhich Lacshmee, the goddess of wealth, is the patroness-beingpurely Hindu.

So it is that in almost every southern city there has grown up a class of political brahmins absolutely secure from criticism that counts.

They are now Mahometans in Java, but Brahmins in Bali and Lombock.

During this part of the ceremony, the attendant Brahmins supplicate the Deity.

Nothing is better vouched for than the extraordinary performances of the Brahmins.

Every caste, and particularly the Brahmins, have members in every possible occupation.

The literary Brahmins and whatever writer is the darling of the hour.

We met with several Brahmins busily engaged with calculations and written treatises.

A large party of Brahmins formed around them as an immediate escort.

He soon returned, saying: A procession of Brahmins is coming this way.

The gods, if there be gods as you Brahmins say, protect him.

They were also accompanied by thousands of Brahmins, collected from different quarters.

Brownstone Brahmins walked their dogs, and couples dozed, curled up in quilts.

The influence which the Brahmins exercise on the popular mind is still considerable.

But this was only in the gardens that numbered Brahmins in their population.