13 Facts About Brahmana

The oldest Brahmana is dated to about 900 BCE, while the youngest are dated to around 700 BCE.

Brahmana can be loosely translated as 'explanations of sacred knowledge or doctrine' or 'Brahmanical explanation'.

The Adbhuta Brahmana is from the last part of the Sadvimsa Brahmana and deals with 'omens and supernatural things'.

Brahmana's mother, grieved at this ill-treatment of her son, prayed to her family deity, [and] the Earth, who appeared in her celestial form in the midst of the assembly, placed him on a throne, and gave him as a token of honour for his surpassing all other children in learning a boon which had the appearance of a Brahmana [i.

Brahmana chose this as a boon, ' me the fore-offering and the after-offerings for my own, and the ghee of the waters and make of plants.

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Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts states that the 'Kaushitaki Brahmana [is] associated with Baskala Shakha of [the] Rigveda and [is] called Sankhyayana Brahmana.

Sadvimsa Brahmana is of the Kauthuma Shakha, and consists of 5 adhyayas.

Brahmana should proceed thus: Having taken a water-pot or a water-jar he should go pouring it out from the garhapatya to the ahavaniya with the verse: "Here Visnu strode".

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts states that the Chandogya Brahmana, called the chanddogyopanishad Brahmana, 'is divided into ten prapathakas.

Brahmana thence went burning along this earth towards the east; and Gotama Rahugana and the Videgha Mathava followed after him as he was burning along.

The Taittiriya-Brahmana, therefore, contains only later additions to the Samhita.

Dalal states that the Vadhula Brahmana of the Vadhula Shakha is 'a Brahmana type of text, though it is actually part of the Vadhula Shrauta Sutra'.

Dalal agrees, stating the 'aim of this Brahmana seems to be to incorporate the Atharva [Veda] in the Vedic ritual, and bring it in line with the other three Vedas.