Brahmin and Sage

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Brahmin noun - The highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category.

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Sage and brahmin are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sage" instead a noun "Brahmin".

Nearby Words: brahman, brahma

Sage noun - A person of deep wisdom or learning.

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Brahmin and sage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brahmin" instead a noun "Sage".

Nearby Word: sagely

Even older than Shakespeare is the classical Sanskrit play The Recognition of Sakuntala, King Dushyanta laments that he cannot marry Sakuntala as he is a Kshatriya and she a Brahmin; however, he later rejoices on hearing that she was adopted by the sage Kanva and is really a Kshatriya too.

Source: Suddenly Suitable Suitor
As only boys of Brahmin parentage were allowed to study the Veda, this could have excluded Satyakama from higher learning; but when the boy Satyakama applied to be taught by the sage Haridrumata, he told Haridrumata the full truth about his parentage.

Source: Older Than Feudalism

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