Brahmin

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Brahmin or brahman (Skt. brāhmaṇa; Tib. བྲམ་ཟེ་རིགས་, Wyl. bram ze) is the priestly caste, one of the four castes or hereditary classes (Skt. varṇa) of Hinduism, the others being the kshatriya, vaishya and shudra.