All 14 Uses of
Brahmin
in
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
- Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims and potters—all the world going and coming.†
Chpt 3 *Brahmins = members of the highest caste of Hindu society
- Certainly those down-country Brahmins are utterly useless.†
Chpt 4
- Personally, he believed in Brahmins, though, like all natives, he was acutely aware of their cunning and their greed.†
Chpt 4
- Still, when Brahmins but irritated with begging demands the mother of his master's wife, and when she sent them away so angry that they cursed the whole retinue (which was the real reason of the second off-side bullock going lame, and of the pole breaking the night before), he was prepared to accept any priest of any other denomination in or out of India.†
Chpt 4
- She compared the cool and the pines of the Kangra and Kulu hills with the dust and the mangoes of the South; she told a tale of some old local Gods at the edge of her husband's territory; she roundly abused the tobacco which she was then smoking, reviled all Brahmins, and speculated without reserve on the coming of many grandsons.†
Chpt 4
- The family priest, an old, tolerant Sarsut Brahmin, dropped in later, and naturally started a theological argument to impress the family.†
Chpt 2
- The Brahmin in the house of the father of my daughter's son has since said that it was through his prayers—which is a little error that I will explain to him when we reach our journey's end.†
Chpt 4
- 'For the sick cow a crow; for the sick man a Brahmin.'†
Chpt 4
- It was only natural that the descending sun should at last strike through the tree-trunks, across the grove, filling it with mealy gold light for a few minutes; but to Kim it was the crown of the Umballa Brahmin's prophecy.†
Chpt 5
- He said, too, and also the Brahmin who made the drawing in the dust at Umballa two days ago, he said, that I shall find a Red Bull on a green field and that the Bull shall help me.'†
Chpt 5
- 'He turns up in charge of a yellow-headed buck-Brahmin priest, with his father's Lodge certificates round his neck, talkin' God knows what all of a red bull.†
Chpt 5
- The buck-Brahmin evaporates without explanations, an' the bhoy sets cross-legged on the Chaplain's bed prophesyin' bloody war to the men at large.†
Chpt 5
- Creighton heard Kim say bitterly: 'Trust a Brahmin before a snake, and a snake before an harlot, and an harlot before a Pathan, Mahbub Ali.'†
Chpt 6
- But I bore away the old man's purse, and the Brahmin found nothing.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(Brahmin as in: Brahmin caste) the highest caste of Hindu society -- responsibility for maintaining and communicating cultural tradition; hence providing priests, scholars and teachers
or: any member of that casteWord Confusion: Brahmin is often confused with Brahman (concept of the supreme spirit found in Hinduism) because in Sanskrit they are spelled "bráhman" and "brahmán" respectively. -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, Brahman can refer to any of several breeds of Indian cattle.
Much less commonly, Brahman can refer to a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family).