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The mahatmya of the tenth adhyaya. The servants of Shiva find a dead Brahman in the city of Kasi on the auspicious day of Ekadasi. Shiva explains that by reciting the tenth aghyaya of the Bhagvadgita, the Brahman had once saved a swan and an apsara (fairy) who had been turned into a lotus. Shiva's attendants take the Brahman to Shiva's heaven
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A begging Brahman raising his begging bowl to accept a gift from a woman. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28615i- Digital Images
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The sixth avatara if Visnu. The warrior Brahman Parasurama slays the evil king Anjuna with an axe.
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The sixth avatara if Visnu. The warrior Brahman Parasurama slays the evil king Anjuna with an axe.
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Kerala Brahmins in transition : a study of a Namputiri family / by Marjatta Parpola.
Parpola, Marjatta.Date: 2000- Pictures
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A Jain horsegroom with his wife offering him a betel leaf. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28525i- Books
Migrant Brāhmaṇas in northern India : their settlement and general impact c. A.D. 475-1030 / Swati Datta (née Sen Gupta).
Datta, Swati, 1951-Date: 1989- Pictures
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Brahman priest with a musical shell and a bell, being used at a religious ceremony, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760-1824.Date: [1799]Reference: 31179iPart of: Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos- Pictures
A travelling Jain musician and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28677i- Pictures
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A Hindu priest offering a young woman some holy beads. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28682i- Books
Crossing the lines of caste : Visvamitra and the construction of Brahmin power in Hindu mythology / Adheesh A. Sathaye.
Sathaye, Adheesh A.Date: [2015]- Pictures
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Vishnu, Brahman and three other deities perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 577133i- Pictures
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A Jain holding a harness accompanied by his wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28316i- Pictures
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Vishnu, Lakshmi (?), Brahman, Shiva and two priests perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 577127i- Pictures
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A man prays to Brahman, Vishnu and Shiva and another deity as they perform a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 577132i- Books
L'enseignement médical dans l'Inde ancienne : temps védico- brahmaniques / par P. Cordier.
Cordier, P. (Palmyr), -1914Date: 1902- Books
Disputed mission : jesuit experiments and brahmanical knowledge in seventeenth-century India / Ines G. Županov.
Županov, Ines G.Date: 1999- Books
The doctrine of Karma : its origin and development in Brāhmaṇical, Buddhist, and Jaina traditions / Yuvraj Krishan.
Krishan, Y., 1922-Date: 1997- Books
Religious centres of North India : Buddhist, Jaina, and Brahmanical based on archaeological and literary sources / Bikash Mukherjee.
Mukherjee, Bikash, 1957-Date: 1993- Digital Images
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The mahatmya of the fifth adhyaya. The bottom half of the painting depicts Pingala's life as a Brahman, his argument with his wife and his death by poisoning. The upper half illustrates the narrative of their subsequent births as birds: they fight in an ascetic's skull in a cremation ground and are given new divine bodies. In the new form they are taken to the court of Dharmaraja, the judge of the actions of mortals
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The mahatmya of the fifth adhyaya. The bottom half of the painting depicts Pingala's life as a Brahman, his argument with his wife and his death by poisoning. The upper half illustrates the narrative of their subsequent births as birds: they fight in an ascetic's skull in a cremation ground and are given new divine bodies. In the new form they are taken to the court of Dharmaraja, the judge of the actions of mortals
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Marriage of Rama to Sita with Brahmins making fire sacrifice. Coloured transfer lithograph.
Reference: 26073i- Books
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The great Indian religions : being a popular account of Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism : with accounts of the Vedas and other Indian sacred books, the Zendabesta, Sikhism, Jainism, Mithraism, etc. / by G. T. Bettany.
Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891.Date: 1892- Books
Brāhṃanic citations : being a concordance of basic extracts, useful for researches in various branches of Vedic sciences and arts, drawn from Saṁhitās (Brāhmaṇa portions), Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas / by Vishva Bandhu ; in collaboration with Bhim Dev & Hans Raj.
Date: 1966- Books
Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur.
Bahadur, Gaiutra, 1975-Date: 2013