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The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos. Brahman bull (Zoöl.), the male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindoos.

A Brahmani.

Any Brahman woman. [Written also Brahmanee.]

The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.

An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.

See Brahman. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship.

A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindos. [Written also Brahma-samaj.]

See Brahma.

, etc. See Brahman, Brachmanic, etc.

One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism.

he denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each.

One of the Brahmanic eons, a period of 4,320,000,000 years. At the end of each Kalpa the world is annihilated.

e Amen, then an invocation, and later a symbol of the trinity formed by Vishnu, Siva, and Brahma. -- Om mani padme hun, a sacred formula of buddhism (esp. of the Lamaists) translated "O, the Jewel in the Lotus, Amen," and referring to Amitabha, who is commonly represented as standing or sitting within a lotus.…

A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official. [Written also pandit.] [India]

The divine energy, personified as the wife of a deity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, etc.); the female principle.

The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry.

The triad, or trinity, of Hindoo gods, consisting of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. [Spelled also Trimurtti.]