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Definition of Brahmana
1. Noun. Prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the bahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals.
Definition of Brahmana
1. Proper noun. (Hinduism) Any of several ancient Hindu religious prose texts that explain the relationship of the Vedas to the sacrificial ceremonies. ¹
2. Noun. The brahmin varna in Hinduism. (Plural: '''brahmana'''.) ¹
3. Noun. A brahmin; a member of the brahmana (sense 1). ¹
4. Noun. A prose text that explains aspects of the Vedas. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brahmana
Literary usage of Brahmana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1898)
"Moreover, the uttara-brahmana makes the impression of a production later than the
... Thus the usual chronological relations in the redaction of Brahmana, ..."
2. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"Because a man is rid of evil, therefore he is called Brahmana; ... No one should
attack a Brahmana, but no Brahmana (if attacked) should let himself fly at ..."
3. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"CHAPTER XXVI THE Brahmana STOP the stream valiantly, drive away the desires, ...
If the Brahmana has reached the other shore in both laws, in restraint and ..."
4. Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda by Arthur Berriedale Keith (1920)
"THE COMPOSITION OF THE AITAREYA Brahmana. The whole of the present text of the
Aitareya Brahmana is recognized by tradition as handed down to us by Sayana ..."
5. Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India by John Muir (1872)
"Legend of Brahma and his daughter, according to the Aita- reya Brahmana, ...
Brahmana just referred to, and another from the same work, xiv. ..."
6. Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National by Gustaaf Houtman (1999)
"One should not strike a brahmana; a brahmana should not get angry with his ...
For a brahmana there is not benefit at all, if he does not restrain from ..."
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