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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