Brahmanistn.adj.

1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry I. 124 The doctrine of a succession of worlds is held no less decidedly by the Buddhists than by the Brahmenists.

1906 S. Low Vision of India xix. 280 The Mussulman, with his varied diet, has a better physique than the pulse and grain feeding Brahmanists.

2001 India Internat. Centre Q. 30 ii. 28 The whole of classical Indian thought was based on the theoretical debates between Brahmanists and Buddhists.

1823 Port Folio Sept. 254 All the Brahmanist Hindoos are divided into Veichnavas, or followers of Vishnou, and Seivas, or followers of Siva.

1843 Foreign & Colonial Q. Rev. Oct. 514 The immense and hitherto uncredited extent to which the schools of Brahminist and Buddhist philosophy had ascended.

1934 J. L. Mitchell Conquest of Maya vi. 184 [They] remained incapable of either developing or assimilating any adult system of conduct, any philosophy of life, Brahmanist or Buddhist.

2015 W. Thompson Work, Sex, & Power viii. 121 Its most direct descendant today..is the Hindu or Brahmanist faith of the Indian subcontinent, which continues to use the Rig Veda as a sacred text.

1871 North Amer. & U.S. Gaz. (Philadelphia) 31 Oct. The masterful old Aryan stock.., having been exiled in the Brahmanistic war with Buddhism in the fifth century, migrated to this continent from India.

2015 Proc. Indian Hist. Congr. 76 368 Alternative reforms movements had the courage to build separate caste identities by defying the caste distinction and rejecting the Brahministic customs and rituals.