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Brahman (bräˑ·m  n),n.pr according to Vedic tradition, the “soul of the Universe,” or the undivided pure consciousness. Brahman silver-gray, humped cattle created as a breed in the southern USA from cattle imported from India at the beginning of the 20th century. As a breed they may have had minor infusions of blood from the British breeds. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Brahmans, who sit atop the caste arrangement, assign tasks to the lower groups, with Dalits at the bottom. Suffice it to say that he is a shaiva Brahman whose deity is Shiva, who operates within an intellectual environment of rigorous debate between rival schools, within a political environment of royal patronage, and within a cultic environment of worshipping Shiva in ways derived from an alternative revelation to the orthodox Veda, namely the Tantras. It must be remembered that only a generation ago, cosmologies spoke of expanding and contracting phases of the universe which some compared to the day and night of the life of Brahman in Hindu cosmology. |
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