NOUN
- a script (probably adapted from the Aramaic about the 7th century BC) from which later Indian scripts developed
How To Use Brahmi In A Sentence
- This sense of time disturbs the novel's protagonist, a young Brahmin landlord called Jagannatha. Hinduism Cast Against Modernity
- The Brahmins in India possessed for a long time the theocratical power; that is to say, they held the sovereign authority in the name of Brahma, the son of God; and even in their present humble condition they still believe their character indelible. A Philosophical Dictionary
- Brahmins traditionally become priests in the Hindu religion.
- The Brahmi numerals came from an earlier alphabetic numeral system, possibly due to Panini.
- Most of these ‘fighting Brahmins’ were neither scholars nor literati.
- Her innate charm even at her age and her adeptness at being able to turn a situation, howsoever desperate, in her favour, catapult her from the degrading depths of poverty into a fairly comfortable Brahmin priestess.
- Into his brain streamed one momentary lightning-flash of the Brahmic Splendor which has ever since lightened his life; upon his heart fell one drop of Brahmic Bliss, leaving thenceforward for always an aftertaste of heaven.
- Over 5,000 guests attended the Vedic ceremony where Brahmin priests chanted mantras.
- [691-1] Pilpay is supposed to have been a Brahmin gymnosophist, and to have lived several centuries before Christ. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
- Their identity can only be guessed at by the symptoms of the possessed person, and also by the astrological calculations of our Brahmins.
