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Hindu sacred text instructing the Brahmins to perform the Vedic rituals
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n. (context Hinduism English) Any of several ancient Hindu religious prose texts that explain the relationship of the Vedas to the sacrificial ceremonies.
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The Brahmanas (; Sanskrit : , Brāhmaṇa ) are a collection of ancient Indian texts with commentaries on the hymns of the four Vedas . They are primarily a digest incorporating myths, legends, the explanation of Vedic rituals and in some cases philosophy. ...
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Moreover, in the oldest Sanscrit legend of the flood in the Zatapatha Brahmana, Manu is also the first man, and by his own efforts creates offspring.
Sanscrit account in the Zatapatha Brahmana with those in the later Puranas.
In this time the old Vedas were compiled into bodies or collections, and the Brahmanas and the Upanishads, besides the great epic poems, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana were composed.
At a very long distance from the hill there are villages, where the people all have bad and erroneous views, and do not know the Sramanas of the Law of Buddha, Brahmanas, or (devotees of) any of the other and different schools.
According to the Satapatha Brahmana, Prajapati is their common ancestor.
If the Brahmana has reached the other shore in both laws (in restraint and contemplation), all bonds vanish from him who has obtained knowledge.
A man does not become a Brahmana by his platted hair, by his family, or by birth.
Prajapati, the master of created beings, and Visvakarma, the universal agent, embody potency in a less concrete form, and in the Brahmanas are almost identical.
Him I call indeed a Brahmana who knows the destruction and the return of beings everywhere, who is free from bondage, welfaring (Sugata), and awakened (Buddha).