07-02-2006, 09:29 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Could you name any Brahmin ruler of India, if any, did he ever indulge in massacre of citizen or oppression?
Brahmin/priest was always involved in temples and ashrams. Your views are missionariesâ propaganda.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not necessarily according to a book by Inder Malhotra as well another small book that I read,
those who formed the high class could change profession.
For example there was some Brahmin by name Gopanna/Gopaka who was a general in the Vijaynagar empire in its early years.(the author of that book is a Brahmin professor)
And there were small intercene wars,I know of one particular name Khadga Tikkana(Khadga=sword) from my childhood,who was a Brahmin general with Manuma Siddhi ,ruler of the principality of Nellore.
and was captured but spared for the first time by the rival king Katama Raju for being a Brahmin.
He of course was killed by an arrow from the back when he went to fight a second time,His horse carried away his body to his grieving parents both of whom died of grief and his wife committed Sati.
In Tamil Nadu,Brahmins were given temples as a compensation and atonement for <i>Brahma hatya pataka</i>(sin of killing a Brahmin)
which might mean that a situation might have arised where it might have been deemed necessary to kill Brahmin.
(Legend has it that Rama built the Rameshwaram temple as an atonement for killing Ravana,a Brahmin)
Yes I have never come across any Brahmin initiated massacre.
By the way are Bhumihars in Bihar Brahmins?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->You, youself see your own friend with casteist eyes, tells everything what is your mindset and hate within.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Did I ever say that I saw them with casteist mind or that I was ever discriminated against.No.never.
Brahmin/priest was always involved in temples and ashrams. Your views are missionariesâ propaganda.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not necessarily according to a book by Inder Malhotra as well another small book that I read,
those who formed the high class could change profession.
For example there was some Brahmin by name Gopanna/Gopaka who was a general in the Vijaynagar empire in its early years.(the author of that book is a Brahmin professor)
And there were small intercene wars,I know of one particular name Khadga Tikkana(Khadga=sword) from my childhood,who was a Brahmin general with Manuma Siddhi ,ruler of the principality of Nellore.
and was captured but spared for the first time by the rival king Katama Raju for being a Brahmin.
He of course was killed by an arrow from the back when he went to fight a second time,His horse carried away his body to his grieving parents both of whom died of grief and his wife committed Sati.
In Tamil Nadu,Brahmins were given temples as a compensation and atonement for <i>Brahma hatya pataka</i>(sin of killing a Brahmin)
which might mean that a situation might have arised where it might have been deemed necessary to kill Brahmin.
(Legend has it that Rama built the Rameshwaram temple as an atonement for killing Ravana,a Brahmin)
Yes I have never come across any Brahmin initiated massacre.
By the way are Bhumihars in Bihar Brahmins?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->You, youself see your own friend with casteist eyes, tells everything what is your mindset and hate within.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Did I ever say that I saw them with casteist mind or that I was ever discriminated against.No.never.