brahman

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of brahmin (member of the Hindu priestly class).
2. A breed of beef cattle from India with a hump on the shoulder.

   “The coins of this dynasty are all marked with the figures of the Brahman Bull and a horseman; and it is remarkable that this very Hindú device was retained by the Mohammedan sovereigns who reigned over the same countries.”

3. (dated)A Brahmin

name

1. (Hinduism)The unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe. The nature of Brahman is described as transpersonal, personal and impersonal by different philosophical schools.