Under Hindoos Adams files the whole Indian religious world and its Brahmin priesthood, and names the Vedas she says their legislator Brama bequeathed to them.
In Hannah Adams
In Adams’s own words, from the 1817 Dictionary. Each passage is quoted verbatim under its own entry.
BRAMINS, (formerly called Brachmans,) the Priests of Brachma, the supreme God of the Hindoos, which see.
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations, 4th ed. (Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817), entry “Bramins” (p. 47).