Brahmin

GPTKB entity

Statements (526)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Confederate_States_of_America
gptkb:ethnic_group
gptkb:group_of_people
gptkb:religious_organization
gptkb:Varna
Sanskrit literature
caste
Historical polity
Hindu religious title
Religious ascetic
gptkbp:activeDuring 18th century
gptkbp:alliedWith Other Sikh Misls
gptkbp:alternativeName Brahmana
Brahmin_community
Hindu_community
Hindu_sage
Jain_community
Sannyasi
Sikh
Sikh_Misl
Sikh_community
Tamil_Brahmin
Vaishya
Vedic_sage
Zoroastrian_community
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Hinduism
gptkb:business
gptkb:Monasticism
merchants
Renunciation
landowners
moneylenders
gptkbp:caste Brahmin
Hindu caste system
gptkbp:composedOf Sikh warriors
gptkbp:contains prose
legends
philosophical discussions
explanations
gptkbp:coreBelief equality
monotheism
public service
honest living
meditation on God's name
good thoughts, good words, good deeds
gptkbp:country gptkb:Bangladesh
gptkb:India
gptkb:Nepal
gptkb:Pakistan
gptkb:Sri_Lanka
gptkbp:culturalPractice gptkb:Carnatic_music
Sanskrit learning
Vedic rituals
gptkbp:deitiesWorshipped gptkb:Ganesha
gptkb:Hanuman
gptkb:Krishna
gptkb:Lakshmi
gptkb:Rama
gptkb:Saraswati
gptkb:Shiva
gptkb:Vishnu
gptkbp:diaspora gptkb:Australia
gptkb:Canada
gptkb:Fiji
gptkb:Guyana
gptkb:Indonesia
gptkb:Malaysia
gptkb:Mauritius
gptkb:Myanmar
gptkb:Singapore
gptkb:South_Africa
gptkb:Suriname
gptkb:Thailand
gptkb:Trinidad_and_Tobago
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
East Africa
present worldwide
gptkbp:diet vegetarianism
gptkbp:dissolved Early 19th century
gptkbp:distinctive_article_of_faith gptkb:Kanga
gptkb:silk
gptkb:Kachera
gptkb:Kara
gptkb:Kirpan
gptkbp:enemyOf gptkb:Durrani_Empire
gptkb:Mughal_Empire
Afghan invaders
gptkbp:established 15th century
gptkbp:ethnicGroup gptkb:Punjabi
gptkbp:etymology gptkb:Sanskrit
from Sanskrit 'viś' meaning 'to settle' or 'to inhabit'
gptkbp:explains gptkb:Symbolism
mythology
sacrificial rituals
gptkbp:femaleEquivalent gptkb:Sannyasini
gptkbp:festival gptkb:Diwali
gptkb:Durga_Puja
gptkb:Ganesh_Chaturthi
gptkb:Holi
gptkb:Janmashtami
gptkb:Navaratri
gptkb:Raksha_Bandhan
gptkb:Deepavali
gptkb:Makar_Sankranti
gptkb:Nowruz
gptkb:Onam
gptkb:Pongal
gptkb:Gurpurab
gptkb:Vaisakhi
gptkb:Avani_Avittam
gptkb:Khordad_Sal
gptkb:Zartosht_No-Diso
gptkb:Gahambar
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Upanishads
gptkb:Aranyakas
gptkb:Dharma
gptkbp:founder gptkb:Guru_Nanak
gptkb:Zoroaster
gptkbp:foundIn gptkb:Bangladesh
gptkb:India
gptkb:Nepal
gptkb:Sri_Lanka
Hindu diaspora
gptkbp:gender Male
gptkbp:genre gptkb:Christian_literature
gptkbp:goal Moksha
gptkbp:gotra yes
gptkbp:governingBody Democratic
gptkbp:hasSubgroup gptkb:Gurukkal
gptkb:Iyengar
gptkb:Iyer
gptkb:Iranian_Zoroastrians
gptkb:Parsis
Brahmin
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Amritsar
gptkbp:historicalName administrators
landowners
Advisors
Landowners
Privileged
privileged
advisors to kings
gptkbp:historicalPresence gptkb:King
gptkb:Chola_dynasty
gptkb:Vijayanagara_Empire
gptkbp:historicalSignificance financiers of kingdoms
patrons of temples
supporters of arts
supporters of education
gptkbp:holiest_site gptkb:Golden_Temple
gptkbp:initiationRite gptkb:Upanayana
gptkbp:language gptkb:Bengali
gptkb:Gujarati
gptkb:Hindi
gptkb:Malayalam
gptkb:Sanskrit
gptkb:Tamil
gptkb:Telugu
gptkb:Odia
gptkb:Punjabi
Kannada
Marathi
various regional languages
Sanskrit (term origin)
gptkbp:languageSpoken gptkb:Bengali
gptkb:Gujarati
gptkb:Hindi
gptkb:Malayalam
gptkb:Sanskrit
gptkb:Tamil
gptkb:Telugu
gptkb:Odia
gptkb:Punjabi
Kannada
Marathi
gptkbp:largest_populations_in gptkb:Uttar_Pradesh,_India
gptkbp:lifeStage gptkb:Sannyasa
gptkbp:mainLanguage gptkb:Gujarati
gptkb:Punjabi
gptkb:Farsi
gptkb:Avestan
gptkbp:major_population_region gptkb:Canada
gptkb:India
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
gptkb:Punjab
gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy gptkb:India
gptkbp:marriageCustoms endogamy
gptkbp:mentionedIn gptkb:Bhagavad_Gita
gptkb:Upanishads
gptkb:Rigveda
gptkb:Manusmriti
gptkb:Dharmaśāstra
gptkbp:mergedInto gptkb:Maharaja_Ranjit_Singh
gptkb:Sikh_Empire
gptkbp:militaryBranch Cavalry units
gptkbp:notableCommunity gptkb:Agarwal
gptkb:Bania
gptkb:Lodha
gptkb:Oswal
gptkb:Marwari
gptkb:Maheshwari
gptkb:Khandelwal
gptkb:Porwal
gptkb:Gupta
gptkbp:notableDiaspora gptkb:Australia
gptkb:Canada
gptkb:North_America
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Capture_of_Lahore_(1761)
gptkb:Battle_of_Amritsar_(1767)
Formation of Dal Khalsa
Formation of Sikh Empire
gptkbp:notableExample gptkb:Adi_Shankaracharya
gptkb:Swami_Vivekananda
gptkb:Aitareya_Brahmana
gptkb:Jaiminiya_Brahmana
gptkb:Kausitaki_Brahmana
gptkb:Shatapatha_Brahmana
gptkb:Taittiriya_Brahmana
gptkbp:notableGroup gptkb:Barendra_Brahmin
gptkb:Bhumihar_Brahmin
gptkb:Chitpavan_Brahmin
gptkb:Deshastha_Brahmin
gptkb:Gaur_Brahmin
gptkb:Hoysala_Brahmin
gptkb:Hoysala_Karnataka_Brahmin
gptkb:Kanyakubja_Brahmin
gptkb:Kulin_Brahmin
gptkb:Madhwa_Brahmin
gptkb:Maithil_Brahmin
gptkb:Niyogi_Brahmin
gptkb:Panch_Dravida
gptkb:Panch_Gauda
gptkb:Rarhi_Brahmin
gptkb:Sanadhya_Brahmin
gptkb:Saraswat_Brahmin
gptkb:Saryupareen_Brahmin
gptkb:Smarta_Brahmin
gptkb:Tyagi_Brahmin
gptkb:Vaidiki_Brahmin
gptkb:Iyengar
gptkb:Iyer
gptkb:Namboothiri
Kashmiri Pandit
gptkbp:notableLeader gptkb:Charat_Singh
gptkb:Maha_Singh
gptkb:Jassa_Singh_Ahluwalia
gptkb:Guru_Amar_Das
gptkb:Guru_Angad
gptkb:Guru_Arjan
gptkb:Guru_Gobind_Singh
gptkb:Guru_Har_Krishan
gptkb:Guru_Har_Rai
gptkb:Guru_Nanak
gptkb:Guru_Ram_Das
gptkb:Guru_Tegh_Bahadur
gptkb:Guru_Hargobind
gptkb:Baghel_Singh
gptkb:Nawab_Kapur_Singh
gptkb:Jassa_Singh_Ramgarhia
gptkbp:notableMisl gptkb:Kanhaiya_Misl
gptkb:Sukerchakia_Misl
gptkb:Bhangi_Misl
gptkb:Dallewalia_Misl
gptkb:Nakai_Misl
gptkb:Nishanwalia_Misl
gptkb:Phulkian_Misl
gptkb:Ramgarhia_Misl
gptkb:Shaheedan_Misl
gptkb:Singhpuria_Misl
gptkb:Ahluwalia_Misl
gptkb:Faizullapuria_Misl
gptkb:Karora_Singhia_Misl
gptkbp:notableOrganization gptkb:Parsi_Panchayat
gptkb:Zoroastrian_Trust_Funds_of_Europe
gptkb:Federation_of_Zoroastrian_Associations_of_North_America
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Pandit_Hariprasad_Chaurasia
gptkb:Pandit_Jasraj
gptkb:Amartya_Sen
gptkb:B._R._Ambedkar
gptkb:C._V._Raman
gptkb:Cyrus_Mistry
gptkb:Freddie_Mercury
gptkb:Homi_J._Bhabha
gptkb:Indira_Gandhi
gptkb:Indra_Nooyi
gptkb:Jawaharlal_Nehru
gptkb:R._K._Narayan
gptkb:Rabindranath_Tagore
gptkb:Venkatraman_Ramakrishnan
gptkb:Homi_K._Bhabha
gptkb:Cyrus_Broacha
gptkb:Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee
gptkb:Bismillah_Khan
gptkb:C._Rajagopalachari
gptkb:Feroze_Gandhi
gptkb:J._R._D._Tata
gptkb:Jagadish_Chandra_Bose
gptkb:Jayaprakash_Narayan
gptkb:M._S._Subbulakshmi
gptkb:Pandit_Bhimsen_Joshi
gptkb:Raja_Ram_Mohan_Roy
gptkb:Ratan_Tata
gptkb:Rohinton_Mistry
gptkb:Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan
gptkb:Satyajit_Ray
gptkb:Srinivasa_Ramanujan
gptkb:Pandit_Jawaharlal_Nehru
gptkb:S._Radhakrishnan
gptkb:Subramania_Bharati
gptkb:Nani_Palkhivala
gptkb:Ustad_Vilayat_Khan
gptkb:A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam
gptkb:Adi_Shankaracharya
gptkb:Dadabhai_Naoroji
gptkb:Madhvacharya
gptkb:P._V._Narasimha_Rao
gptkb:Pandit_Ravi_Shankar
gptkb:Ramanuja
gptkb:Swami_Vivekananda
gptkb:Chanakya
gptkb:Zubin_Mehta
gptkb:Pandit_Birju_Maharaj
gptkb:A._R._Rahman
gptkb:Cyrus_Poonawalla
gptkb:Jamsetji_Tata
gptkb:Nergis_Mavalvala
gptkb:Ravi_Shankar
gptkb:Adi_Godrej
gptkb:Fali_Nariman
gptkb:Field_Marshal_Sam_Manekshaw
gptkb:Piloo_Mody
gptkb:Viswanathan_Anand
gptkb:R._Venkataraman
gptkb:R._K._Laxman
gptkb:Pandit_Ajay_Pohankar
gptkb:Pandit_Basavaraj_Rajguru
gptkb:Pandit_Bhajan_Sopori
gptkb:Pandit_Bhimrao_Panchale
gptkb:Pandit_D._K._Pattammal
gptkb:Pandit_Jasraj_Mishra
gptkb:Pandit_Kumar_Gandharva
gptkb:Pandit_Mallikarjun_Mansur
gptkb:Pandit_Nikhil_Banerjee
gptkb:Pandit_Pannalal_Ghosh
gptkb:Pandit_Rajan_Mishra
gptkb:Pandit_Ram_Narayan
gptkb:Pandit_Sajan_Mishra
gptkb:Pandit_Shivkumar_Sharma
gptkb:Pandit_V._G._Jog
gptkb:Pandit_Vishnu_Digambar_Paluskar
gptkb:Pandit_Vishnu_Narayan_Bhatkhande
gptkb:Bapsi_Sidhwa
gptkb:Diana_Edulji
gptkb:Godrej_family
gptkb:Noshir_Contractor
gptkb:Noshir_Dadrawala
gptkb:Noshir_Gowadia
gptkb:Noshir_H._Wadia
gptkb:Noshir_Kaikobad
gptkb:Noshir_Mehta
gptkb:Noshir_Mistry
gptkb:Noshir_P._Engineer
gptkb:Noshir_S._Contractor
gptkb:Noshir_S._Dadrawala
gptkb:Noshir_S._Engineer
gptkb:Noshir_S._Kaikobad
gptkb:Noshir_S._Mehta
gptkb:Noshir_S._Mistry
gptkb:Noshir_S._Wadia
gptkbp:numberOfMisls 12
gptkbp:organization gptkb:Khalsa
gptkb:Akal_Takht
gptkb:Shiromani_Gurdwara_Parbandhak_Committee
gptkbp:originatedIn gptkb:Khalsa
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Vedas
gptkb:Hindu_society
gptkb:Sikh_Confederacy
gptkbp:period c. 900–700 BCE
gptkbp:persecutedBy gptkb:Islamic_conquest_of_Persia
gptkbp:philosophy gptkb:Advaita_Vedanta
gptkb:Dvaita_Vedanta
gptkb:Visishtadvaita_Vedanta
gptkbp:population several million
significant minority in India
gptkbp:populationCenter gptkb:India
gptkb:Iran
gptkb:Pakistan
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:populationEstimate over 1 billion
over 25 million
less than 200,000 worldwide
gptkbp:positionInVarnaSystem highest
Highest
gptkbp:practicedIn gptkb:Amrit_Sanskar
gptkb:Sannyasa
gptkb:Ardas
gptkb:Kirat_Karni
gptkb:Naam_Japna
gptkb:Vand_Chakna
Langar
Seva
Kirtan
gptkbp:prohibited_practice gptkb:superstition
cutting hair
adultery
intoxication
gptkbp:purpose ritual instructions
Defend Sikh interests
Resist Afghan invasions
Resist Mughal Empire
gptkbp:rank third varna
gptkbp:region gptkb:Sri_Lanka
gptkb:Puducherry
gptkb:Punjab
gptkb:Tamil_Nadu
Indian subcontinent
gptkbp:regionOfWorship gptkb:Hindu_temple
gptkbp:relatedConcept gptkb:Dvija
gptkb:Shudra
gptkb:Untouchability
gptkb:Varna_system
gptkb:Kshatriya
Brahmin
Caste system in India
Reservation in India
gptkbp:relatedGroup gptkb:Kannada_Brahmin
gptkb:Malayali_Brahmin
gptkb:Telugu_Brahmin
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:yoga
gptkb:Lala
gptkb:Agarwal
gptkb:Bania
gptkb:Oswal
gptkb:Atharvaveda
gptkb:Marwari
gptkb:Rigveda
gptkb:Samaveda
gptkb:Yajurveda
gptkb:Mahajan
gptkb:Gupta
gptkb:Modi
Swami
Jainism (many Vaishyas are Jains)
Vaishnavism (many Vaishyas are Vaishnavas)
Sadhu
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Hinduism
gptkb:Sikhism
gptkb:Zoroastrianism
gptkbp:role gptkb:priest
gptkb:scholar
gptkb:teacher
advisor
producer
taxpayers
Wanderer
hermit
Advising kings
Performing rituals
Preserving knowledge
Teaching scriptures
ritual specialist
providers of goods and services
Spiritual teacher
gptkbp:sacred_fire_temples gptkb:stadium
gptkb:Atash_Adaran
gptkb:Atash_Dadgah
cathedral
gptkbp:sacredText gptkb:Bhagavad_Gita
gptkb:Mahabharata
gptkb:Ramayana
gptkb:Upanishads
gptkb:Vedas
gptkb:Guru_Granth_Sahib
gptkbp:script gptkb:Tamil_script
gptkbp:scripture gptkb:Upanishads
gptkb:Vedas
gptkb:Agamas
gptkb:Avesta
gptkb:Puranas
gptkb:Dharmaśāstra
Sanskrit literature
gptkbp:significantEvent gptkb:Operation_Blue_Star
gptkb:Partition_of_India
gptkb:1984_anti-Sikh_riots
gptkbp:significantPopulationIn gptkb:Bangladesh
gptkb:Canada
gptkb:Fiji
gptkb:Guyana
gptkb:Mauritius
gptkb:Nepal
gptkb:Pakistan
gptkb:South_Africa
gptkb:Sri_Lanka
gptkb:Suriname
gptkb:Trinidad_and_Tobago
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:socialClass twice-born (dvija)
gptkbp:subdivision numerous regional sub-castes
gptkbp:symbol gptkb:Khanda
gptkb:Nishan_Sahib
gptkb:Faravahar
yellow color (sometimes associated)
gptkbp:traditional_burial_practice gptkb:cemetery
gptkbp:traditionalLifestyle Detachment
Celibacy
gptkbp:traditionalOccupation gptkb:award
gptkb:priest
gptkb:scholar
gptkb:teacher
agriculture
commerce
trade
cattle-rearing
gptkbp:varna Brahmin
gptkbp:varnaSystem four varnas
gptkbp:varnaSystemOrder after Kshatriya
before Shudra
gptkbp:wornBy Ochre robes
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Province_I
gptkb:Upanishads
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4