Word: brahmanical
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Back in 1917, the ranch's cattle-English Shorthorns and Herefords-were doing poorly. They sickened in the blazing Texas sun. Kleberg decided to try Brahman bulls, which thrive on grass feeding and India's killing heat. Other cattlemen shook their heads. Brahmans had not worked out too well for other breeders. But Kleberg bred the Brahmans and Shorthorns together till he evolved what he wanted, a cross-breed bull named Monkey...
...India's new rulers on the morrow, went to the home of Rajendra Prasad, president of the Constituent Assembly. On his back lawn four plantain trees served as pillars for a temporary miniature temple. A roof of fresh green leaves sheltered a holy fire attended by a Brahman priest. There, while several thousand women chanted hymns, the ministers-to-be and constitution-makers passed in front of the priest, who sprinkled holy water on them. The oldest woman placed dots of red powder (for luck) on each man's forehead...
...sandy banks of the sacred Jumna River at New Delhi last week, 2,000 half-naked Brahman priests prayed in unison to Śurya, God of the Sun, imploring him to end the world's chaos and send peace and happiness to mankind...
...years have India's Brahman priests gathered to perform this mahayajna (great sacrifice) for the purification of the world. Last time: after the 17th-Century Mohammedan Emperor Aurangzeb slaughtered thousands of Hindus. Then the priests gathered at Benares, recited 10,000,000 prayers...
...that the Western mind cannot or will not attempt to understand the East, India's leading political figures (excluding those in jail), industrial tycoons and Europeans met at Delhi within a stone's throw of the Maharaja's palace now occupied by William Phillips, the Boston Brahman who is President Roosevelt's personal envoy to India.* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar, who broke with Gandhi over the civil-disobedience issue, spoke eloquently of Gandhi's leadership, kindliness, love of freedom. Even the two Chambers of Princes and most Moslem groups (with the exception of loudmouthed Mohammed Ali Jinnah...