Brahmana definitions

Brahmana

1) Veda 2) Vedic literature
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Brahmana

The ``Brāhmaṇa``s (Devanagari: ब्राह्मणम्) are part of the Hindu śruti literature. They are commentaries on the four Vedas, detailing the proper performance of rituals. Each Vedic shakha (school) had its own Brahmana, and it is not known how many of these texts existed during the Mahajanapadas period. A total of 19 Brah...
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brāhmaṇa

a person with natural aptitude for learning, analyzing, researching, teaching, and probing into nature’s mysteries. One of the fourvarṇas.
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Brahmana

[n] - Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals
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Brahmana

a member of the highest varna; a priest, teacher or intellectual.
Found on https://iskconeducationalservices.org/HoH/extras/02glossary.htm

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brAhmaNa

1. one pursuing brahman, one of the four sections of society
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Brahmana

noun prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the Brahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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Brahmana

(Skr.) One of several Vedic (s.v.) dictums or treatises of a ritualistic and sacrificial character which prepared the way, sometimes over an Aranyaka (q-v.), for the Upanishads (q.v.) by incipient philosophic reflections. -- K.F.L.
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21203

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Brahmana

one of a class of prose pieces dealing with Vedic rituals and sacrifices. Cf. Veda.
Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/brahmana

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