Bramins

Every morning the priests, who are called Bramins, wash the idol with rose water, and perfume him with sweet savours, after which they pray to him prostrate on the earth.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784

'Bramins' were known as members of an Indian caste who abstained from meat, and vegetable eaters were often referred to as Brahmins.)

Morton, Topoi of 'Blood and Gold' in Mary and Percy Shelley 1997

If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which Plato denoted as Reminiscence, and which is implied by the Bramins in the tenet of Transmigration.

Representative Men 2006

Davidson also mentions a race in Bundelcund called Kunjurs who were in the habit, as he was informed by the Bramins, of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

The _White Elephant_ is a sacred animal with the Siamese, and the cow with the Bramins and Hindoos.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 Various

So different over all the world are the sects of saints as well as of sinners, that besides the Bramins, a set of innocent and religious priests, who have rendered their women virtuous by treating them with kindness and humanity, there are another sect of religio-philosophical drones, called Fakiers, who contribute as much as they can to debauch the sex, under a pretence of superior sanctity.

Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Anonymous

Solomon, by the apocryphal writers, and by the ancient Bramins, are the sentiments of this day.

Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Anonymous

[1] The captain informs that this inscription is in the language of the ancient _Bramins_.

Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition. Anonymous

Belzoni found in the mummy pits in Egypt, and they closely resemble some of the many kinds of beads with which the Bramins have counted their muntras time immemorial.

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

Bramins of the Ganges, the shepherds of Mesopotamia, or the anchorets of

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham