search `brahman' in `Apte Dic'
meanings of "brahman" [1]
n.{c-stem}
1.the Supreme Being, regarded as impersonal and divested of all quality and action;
2.a hymn of praise;
3.a sacred text;
4.the Vedas;
5.the sacred and mystic syllable OM;
6.the priestly or Brahmanical class (collectively);
7.the power or energy of a braahmaNa;
8.religious penance or austerities;
9.celibacy;
10.final emancipation or beatitude;
11.theology;
12.the braahmaNa portion of the Veda;
13.wealth;
14.food;
15.a braahmaNa;
16.truth;
17.the braahmaNahood;
18.the soul;
19.see brahmaastra;
20.the gaayatrii mantra
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meanings of "brahman" [2]
m.{c-stem}
1.the Supreme Being, the Creator, the first deity of the sacred Hindu Trinity, to whom is emtrusted the work of creating the world;
2.a braahmaNa;
3.a devout man;
4.one of the four ritvijas or priests employed at a Soma sacrifice;
5.one conversant with sacred knowledge;
6.the sun;
7.intellect;
8.an epithet of the seven prajaapatis;
9.an epithet of bRhaspati;
10.the planet Jupiter;
11.the world of brahmaa;
12.of ziva
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