BRAHMANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brahmana mean? 

• BRAHMANA (noun)
  The noun BRAHMANA has 1 sense:

1. prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the brahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals

  Familiarity information: BRAHMANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAHMANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the brahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

Veda; Vedic literature ((from the Sanskrit word for 'knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads)