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Brahmin (/ ˈ b r ɑː m ɪ n /; Sanskrit: ब्राह्मण, romanized: brāhmaṇa) is a varna within Hindu society. The other three varnas are the Kshatriya , Vaishya , and Shudra .
Dwarkanath Tagore, first Indian industrialists to form an enterprise with British partners.He is the founder of Carr, Tagore and Company. [27]Vijay Shekhar Sharma born 15 July 1978) is an Indian technology entrepreneur and billionaire businessman.
The nirguna Brahman is the Brahman as it really is, however, the saguna Brahman is posited as a means to realizing nirguna Brahman, but the Hinduism schools declare saguna Brahman to be a part of the ultimate nirguna Brahman [82] The concept of the saguna Brahman, such as in the form of avatars, is considered in these schools of Hinduism to be ...
The brahmarakshasa told the king that he had previously been a wealthy Brahmin from the country of Magadha named Somadatta. Having mastered the Vedas, Somadatta had grown arrogant from the knowledge he had acquired and his youth, due to which he stopped heeding his preceptor. He was hence reduced to the state of a brahmarakshasa.
Another theory of origin for Zafar Khan is that he was of Brahmin origin, [18] and that Bahman is a corrupted personalized form of Brahmin, [19] with Hasan being a Hindu Brahmin who became Muslim. [ 20 ] [ 18 ] However this view has been discredited by S. A. Q. Husaini, who considers the idea of a Brahmin origin or Zafar Khan originally being a ...
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Thence the name was adopted in the influential work of Georg Bühler, albeit in the variant form "Brahma". [23] The Gupta script of the 5th century is sometimes called "Late Brahmi". From the 6th century onward, the Brahmi script diversified into numerous local variants, grouped as the Brahmic family of scripts.
Chhetris and Thakuris claim descent from the ancient Indian Kshatriyas and form the ruling and warrior classes of Nepal. [ 26 ] The ethnicities of the officers at and above the Under-Secretary level in governmental positions of Nepal in 1969 showed Chhetri and Brahmin as dominant in the top two highest positions, with 102 (35.17%) and 97 (33.45 ...