brah-mans

Updated: April 30, 2025

Thanks to the fanaticism of Portuguese soldiers, the chronology of the Indian cave temples must remain for ever an enigma to the archaeological world, beginning with the Brah-mans, who say Elephanta is 374,000 years old, and ending with Fergusson, who tries to prove that it was carved only in the twelfth century of our era.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan

He says openly "If you expel the English, then, no later than tomorrow, you and I and everyone who rises against idol worship will have our throats cut like mere sheep. The Mussulmans are stronger than the idol worshippers; but these last are stronger than we." The Pandit held many a warm dispute with the Brah-mans, those treacherous enemies of the people, and has almost always been victorious.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan