Brahmanas also contain mystical and philosophical material that constitutes Aranyakas and Upanishads. Each Veda has one or more of its own Brahmanas,...

Each of the Brahmanas is associated with one of the Samhitas or its recensions. The oldest dated to about 900 BCE, while the youngest Brahmanas (such as...

Yajnavalkya. Described as the most complete, systematic, and important of the Brahmanas (commentaries on the Vedas), it contains detailed explanations of Vedic...

Praudha Brahmana) ("great" Brahmana), also known as the Panchavimsha Brahmana from its consisting of twenty-five prapathakas (chapters) is a Brahmana of the...

language. Keith, Arthur Berriedale (1998) [1920]. Rigveda Brahmanas: the Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 28....

territory of the Brāhmaṇas was located near Magadha, and their neighbours were the Buli tribe of Allakappa. The capital city of the Brāhmaṇas was named in...

the Paippalada recensions of the Atharvaveda. This text and the short Brahmanas of the Samaveda are the latest amongst the Vedic texts belonging to this...

Aranyakas from the Brahmanas in the sense that the Aranyakas go into the meanings of the 'secret' rituals not detailed in the Brahmanas. Later tradition...

Saptanna Brāhmaṇa', and 'Vartika on Udgitha Brāhmaṇa', etc.), are commentaries on specific sacrificial rites enumerated in the Brāhmaṇas, not the Brāhmaṇas themselves...

Utkala Brahmins, also known as Odia Brahmins, are a Brahmin community who belong to the state of Odisha, India. Utkala Brahmins are the historical caretakers...

Sadvimsha Brahmana (Ṣaḍviṃṡa Brāhmaṇa) (ṢadvB) is considered as an appendix to the Panchavimsha Brahmana (which has twenty-five Books) and its twenty-sixth...

Bari Brahmana is a town and a notified area committee, just 25 km from Samba town in Samba district in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India...

Sen Brahmana is a village located in Udhampur Tehsil of Udhampur district near Chenab river(Tawi) in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is situated 22 km away...

Brahmana Periya-Agraharam is a neighborhood in the city of Erode, Tamil Nadu, India. It functioned as an independent Village Panchayat until the corporation...

usually refers to the Rigveda Samhita, while the Brahmanas are referred to as the "Rigveda Brahmanas" (etc.). Technically speaking, however, "the Rigveda"...

time along with nimiṣa, kāṣṭhā, and kalā in the Hindu calendar. In the Brāhmaṇas, muhūrta denotes a division of time: 1/30 of a day, or a period of 48...

Mulewal Brahmana is a village in Shahkot in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) from Shahkot, 19 kilometres...

(Sanskrit for "given to Brahmana") was tax free land gift either in form of single plot or whole villages donated to Brahmanas in the early medieval India...

enumerate these rishis by name, although later Vedic texts such as the Brahmanas and Upanisads do so. An early prototype of the "Saptarishi" concept may...

both mantras and explanatory prose (which would usually belong to the brāhmaṇas). The best known and best preserved of these recensions is the Taittirīya...

pp. 169–. ISBN 978-3-03-028408-4. The four varnas are the brahmins (brahmanas—priests, teachers); kshatriyas (ksatriyas—administrators, rulers); vaishyas...

Brahmana 5.32, Rig Veda, pages 139-140 (Sanskrit); for English translation: See Arthur Berriedale Keith (1920). The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of...

Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana (JUB) (Sanskrit: जैमिनीय उपनिषद्-ब्राह्मण, Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaņa) or the Talavakara Upanishad Brahmana (Sanskrit: तलवकार...

gotra of the Brahmanas of the historical Dharmaranya region in the present-day Mirzapur district. According to him, the Guptas were not Brahmanas, but "adopted"...

people of different varnas including the brahmanas. So there is every probability that a number of brahmana families were mixed up with members of other...

Kerala Brahmana Sabha (KBS) is a registered charitable organization which works for the progress of Kerala Iyers, one of the sects of Tamil Brahmins settled...

Phragmacossia brahmana is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in southern India. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Phragmacossia brahmana. Wikispecies...

three worlds, or as 12 Adityas, 11 Rudras, 8 Vasus, and 2 Ashvins in the Brahmanas. The thirty-three deities are: Eight Vasus (deities of material elements)...

the Gomati river in the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. The Brahmanas derive the name Naimiṣāraṇya from 'nimiṣā', "a twinkling of the eye";...

Vedas including its four types of embedded texts – the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas and the Upanishads. Of the Shrutis, the Upanishads alone...