Brahmana

[brah-muh-nuh]

noun

Hinduism.

1. one of a class of prose pieces dealing with Vedic rituals and sacrifices.

Brahmana

/ ˈbrɑːmənə /

noun

1. Hinduism any of a number of sacred treatises added to each of the Vedas

Word History and Origins

Origin of Brahmana¹

From the Sanskrit word brāhmaṇa

Example Sentences

Afterwards a bed, with its furniture, is brought; and the giver sits down near the Brahmana, who has been invited to receive the present.

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The Brahmana shows how, in Hindostan, the lower animals became vicarious substitutes for man in sacrifice, as the fawn of Artemis or the ram of Jehovah took the place of Iphigenia or of Isaac.

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He was an Indian Brahmana and a great Vedic scholar and apostle.

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Like the other Vedas it is divided into Samhita, Brahmanas and Upanishads, representing the spiritual element and its magical and nationalistic development.

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Connections of that sort were easily invented at random by the compilers of the Brahmanas in their existing form.

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