| The site had been used as a place of worship for many years before the Brahmans transformed it into a specifically Hindu-oriented site. |
| I had the privilege to attend ablutions of the deity in His narthex by two Brahmans. |
| For many years women were not allowed to follow the cortege, and only the wives of Brahmans could walk around the pyre. |
| At the top were the Brahmans, priests of the sacrificial religion and intellectuals. |
| Before Christ, it radiated upon the Indian Brahmans, the Persian Magi, the Judean Essenes, on the Greeks, on Pythagoras and Plato. |
| The appeal of wandering mendicant religious teachers like the Buddha lay partly in the contrast between their message and that of the Brahmans. |
