Brahmanan.
/ˈbrɑːmənə/, U.S. /ˈbrɑmənə/ Hinduism.
Any of a group of Vedic texts, composed in Sanskrit between c800 and 600 b.c. and containing expository material relating to Vedic sacrificial ritual.
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1814 M. Graham Lett. on India v. 73 The Vedas consist of a compilation of prayers or Muntras and hymns,..and of precepts and maxims called Brahmana.
1902 Jrnl. Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. 20 74 The fourth Brahmana is argumentative and deals with the knowledge of the soul.
1993 Unesco Courier (Electronic ed.) May Vedic speculation, particularly in the Brahmana, tends to suggest that the gods depend on the sacrifices made to them and in a sense are even raised up by these sacrifices.
2009 W. Doniger Hindus vii. 196 One Brahmana depicts the renunciant life in unflattering terms: ‘Fathers have always crossed over the deep darkness by means of a son.’
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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