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    Brahmins

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    Brahmin · twice-born · brahmin · brahmins · the Brahmin · śrotriya · Brahmin caste · Brahminical lawyers · Brāhmaṇa · Veda-knower

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    Brahmin7 mentions

    Bṛhaspati Smṛti (Sanskrit) · Āṅgirasa Smṛti (Sanskrit) · Vīramitrodaya (Sanskrit) · Yama Smṛti (Sanskrit)

    from a Brahmin, he should take a twentieth.
    chapter 1

    in the texts

    Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

    The priestly caste of Hindu India whose jurisprudence and role in fasting rituals are compared to the Brehons.

    but it cannot have had any such sacredness, and consequently any such authority, as the Brahminical jurisprudence.
    chapter 2
    indeed, he generally gives definiteness to it by retaining a Brahmin to starve himself vicariously, and no Hindoo doubts what would come of causing a Brahmin’s death.
    lecture ii the ancient irish law
    According to the general custom of India, the Brahmin teacher of Brahmin pupils receives no payment for his services, but the Hindoo law repeatedly reserves to him a remote succession to their property.
    lecture viii the growth and diffusion of primitive

    Bṛhaspati SmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    The priestly class, treated as the foundational and most authoritative social group, privileged in court appointments and legal administration.

    Brahmins, Vaishyas, merchants, artisans, craftsmen, and guards.
    chapter 1
    Where there is no learned Brahmin, there he should appoint a Kshatriya, or a Vaishya learned in the treatises on *dharma*;
    chapter 1
    The kingdom of a king who, setting aside Brahmins, examines legal cases with low-born men (*vṛṣala*), decays, and his army and treasury are destroyed.
    chapter 1

    VīramitrodayaAncient · Sanskrit

    The class of ritual officiants and recipients of the śrāddha offering, whose availability and purity govern timing.

    'Immediately' means it is obligatory.
    chapter 1
    / > And having obtained a worthy Brahmin, a *śrāddha* is enjoined immediately.
    chapter 1
    In the case of an obstacle other than impurity, however, it should be performed by a substitute.
    chapter 1

    Āṅgirasa SmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    The class of Vedic-initiated priests/twice-born who alone have the right to recite the Veda and whose permission and purity govern many rites.

    **The Brahmin's Right to the Veda**
    chapter 1
    The Veda is inherently pure from the pure.
    chapter 1
    For Brahmins, impurity will arise from *āśauca*.
    chapter 1

    Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)Ancient · Sanskrit

    The class of priestly reciters and recipients of sacrificial gifts, central to reciprocity and authority passages.

    For the brahmins know the mind;
    kanda 1
    Let the gift protect the pierced man against thirst;
    kanda 1
    May the one who has drunk deep be replenished through the sacrificial fee;
    kanda 1

    ParamārthasāraAncient · Sanskrit

    The priestly class invoked in a hypothetical extreme example of sin.

    Though he perform [thousands of] horse-sacrifices, or [a hundred] thousand slayings of brahmins, the knower of {{paramārtha|supreme reality}}, [being] stainless, is touched neither by [their] merit nor by [their] sin.
    liberation in life the liberated sage and the frui

    Yama SmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    The priestly twice-born class, whose ritual duties, purity, and transgressions are extensively regulated in the text.

    A Brahmin who serves a Śūdra woman is considered lower than a Śūdra;
    chapter 2
    By the very act of intercourse with a Śūdra woman, a twice-born begets a child of her nature;
    chapter 2
    A Brahmin who cohabits with a Śūdra woman will see his ancestors look upon / the beautiful tooth of a dog, even of impure ones.
    chapter 2