Example sentences for: brahman

How can you use “brahman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The three most important manifestations of the Brahman, or godhead, are Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva, which are often presented to Westerners as a trinity, though this is not really comparable to the Christian concept.

  • Men such as Governor-General William Bentinck worked with missionaries and reformers such as Brahman Ram Mohan Roy to legislate against the practice of widows becoming sati by climbing onto the funeral pyres of their respective husbands.

  • Compilers of our dictionaries should stop capitalizing the words for the four Hindu castes and retain the custom only for Brahma or Brahman when it implies the Absolute.

  • It is high time that brahman be so spelt when the caste is implied, reserving Brahman when `the Absolute' is meant.

  • Brahman or brahman?


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