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Brahmin Officers from 1st Brahmans Infantry Regiment. Maharaja Lakhmeshwar Singh statue. Ancient Indian economist and military strategist Chanakya.
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Bull at a livestock show. The Brahman is an American breed of zebuine-taurine hybrid beef cattle.It was bred in the United States from 1885 using cattle originating in India, imported at various times from the United Kingdom, India, and Brazil.
Brahmans occupy the highest ritual position among the four Varnas of Hinduism. Since the Late Vedic period the Brahmins, who were generally classified as priests, mentor, teacher who were also rulers , zamindars , warriors and holders of other highest administrative posts.
A 17th-century manuscript page of Sadvimsha Brahmana, a Pañcaviṃśa-Brāhmaṇa supplement (Sanskrit, Devanagari). It is found embedded in the Samaveda.. The Brahmanas (/ ˈ b r ɑː m ə n ə z /; Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणम्, IAST: Brāhmaṇam) are Vedic śruti works attached to the Samhitas (hymns and mantras) of the Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva Vedas.
The emphasis on ritual and the dominant position of Brahmans developed as an ideology in the Kuru-Pancala realm, and expanded over a wider area after the demise of the Kuru-Pancala kingdom [14] and its incorporation into the Magadha-based empires.
Mohyal Brahmins are an Indian sub-caste of Saraswat Brahmins from the Punjab region. [1] A sub-group of the Punjabi Hindu community, Mohyal caste comprises seven clans named Bali, Bhimwal, Chhibber, Datt, Lau, Mohan and Vaid.
The earliest historical evidence of settlement of Brahmins in Assam comes from epigraphic sources of the Varman dynasty (350–650). [6] In the late medieval period beginning with the early 16th century, a number of Brahmins from Mithila, Benaras, Kanauj, Bengal and Puri (Srikshetra), were settled in western Assam by the Koch kings for performing Brahminical rites.