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Brahman
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Brahman (bräˑ·mn),
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.


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Even the essays in this volume, while they broadly question the existence/acceptance of a Brahmanical hierarchy, raise issues that compel us to think otherwise, certainly about the existence of some sort of hierarchy, not necessarily linear and not necessarily uncontested.
Also, the party was identified with the Hindi-speaking heartland of the North and its brahmanical interpretation of Hinduism did not take with the masses.
Disputed Mission: Jesuit Experiments and Brahmanical Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century India.
 
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