Before Christ, it radiated upon the Indian Brahmans, the Persian Magi, the Judean Essenes, on the Greeks, on Pythagoras and Plato. |
The drovers are off to bring in the Brahmans, Droughtmasters, Angus and Shorthorns. |
The appeal of wandering mendicant religious teachers like the Buddha lay partly in the contrast between their message and that of the Brahmans. |
In case your Hinduism is a little rusty, the Brahmans are the priest caste in traditional Hindu society. |
For many years women were not allowed to follow the cortege, and only the wives of Brahmans could walk around the pyre. |
At the top were the Brahmans, priests of the sacrificial religion and intellectuals. |