abrāhmaṇa

one in general except a Brāhmaṇa; e. g. in the Śatapath.:

…tadvai nābrāhmaṇaḥ pibedagnau hyadhiśrayanti tasmānnābrāhmaṇaḥ

pibet; or in the Chhānd. Upan.: taṃ hovāca naitadabrāhmaṇo

vivaktumarhati (where ‘none but a Brāhmaṇa’ implies ‘be-

cause the Brāhmaṇas alone are upright’); or in the Mi-

tākṣ.: aśvādvaḍavāyāmaśvaḥ . tasmādbrāhmaṇādbrāhmaṇyāmutpanno'brā-

hmaṇa iti viruddham; [but so far, by the fact of negation,

comparable to a Brāhmaṇa, that a man, not a lump of

earth &c. is implied; this sense is conveyed when Patanjali

gives abrāhmaṇa as an instance to the meaning ‘similar’ of

na, in his comment on the Nyāya to Pāṇ. III. 1. 12. and VI.

1. 71., omitted in the mutilated reprint of the Calc. edition:

nañyuktamivayuktaṃ vā (to VI. 1. 71.: nañyukta ivayukte vā) ya-

tkiṃcidiha dṛśyate . anyasmiṃstatsadṛśe kāryaṃ vijñāyate . tathā

hyartho gamyate . (VI. 1. 71.: tadyathā .) abrāhmaṇamānayetyukte brā-

hmaṇasadṛśa evānīyate (to VI. 1. 71.: brāhmaṇasadṛśamevānayati)

nāsau loṣṭamānīya kṛtī bhavati; or the latter words more

completely to the same Nyāya, VI. 1. 135. (omitted in the

Calc. ed. and therefore also in the reprint of that edition):

abrāhmaṇamānayetyukte brāhmaṇasadṛśaṃ kṣatriyamānayati . nāsau &c.].

² A twice-born man who is not a Brāhmaṇa, i. e. a Ksha-

triya or a Vaiśya; e. g. in Manu: abrāhmaṇādadhyayanamā-

patkāle vidhīyate (Kullūka: brāhmaṇādanyo yo dvijaḥ kṣatri-

yastadabhāve vaiśyo vā); or in Jaimini's Sūtra: abrāhmaṇe ca

darśanāt (where a Kshatriya is meant); or in the Vārttika

to Pāṇ.: abrāhmaṇagotramātrādyuvapratyayasyopasaṃkhyānam (Kaiyy.:

tena vaiśyagotrādapi sidhyati, i. e. a Kshatriya and a Vaiśya;

comp. the other Vārtt. of II. 4. 58. in the Calc. ed.); or in

the Vājas.: aśūdrā abrāhmaṇāste prājāpatyāḥ (scil. paśavaḥ).

³ A Śūdra (i. e. the reverse of a Brāhmaṇa, the last of the

castes, while the Brāhmaṇa is the first &c.); e. g. in Manu:

abrāhmaṇaḥ saṃgrahaṇe prāṇāntaṃ daṇḍamarhati; (Kullūka: abrāhmaṇo

'tra śūdraḥ). ⁴ A bad Brāhmaṇa, an impious Brāhmaṇa;

e. g. in the Ādiparvan of the Mahābh.: sa pīḍito deva-

yānyā maharṣiḥ samāhvayatsaṃrambhāccaiva kāvyaḥ . asaṃśayaṃ māmasurā

dviṣanti ye me śiṣyānāgatāndūṣayanti . abrāhmaṇaṃ kartumicchanti

raudrāste māṃ yathā vyabhicaranti nityam.

2. f. (-ṇī) The fem. of abrāhmaṇa in the foregoing mean-

ings; e. g. Nārada: svairiṇyabrāhmaṇī veśyā dāsī niṣkāsinī

ca yāḥ . gamyāḥ syurānulomyena striyo na pratilomataḥ (Vīra-

mitr.: abrāhmaṇīti svairiṇyaviśeṣaṇam). E. a neg. and brāhmaṇa.

II. Bahuvr. m. f. n. (-ṇaḥ-ṇā-ṇam) Without Brāhmaṇas;

e. g. in the Vāyu Pur.: mamādhvare śaṃsitāraḥ stuvanti rathaṃtare

sāma gāyanti geyam . abrāhmaṇe brahmasatre yajante &c. E. a

priv. and brāhmaṇa.

— 1) m. kein Brahman.

— 2) f. abrāhmaṇī keine Brahmanin Ind. St. 10,87.