Everything about Brahmanas totally explained
The
s (
Devanagari: ) are part of the
Hindu śruti literature. They are commentaries on the four
Vedas, detailing the proper performance of rituals.
Each Vedic
shakha (school) had its own Brahmana, and it isn't known how many of these texts existed during the
Mahajanapadas period. About twenty in number have survived into modern times.
The Brahmanas were also seminal in developing later Indian thought and scholarship, including
Hindu philosophy, predecessors of
Vedanta, law, astronomy, geometry, linguistics (
Panini), the concept of
Karma, or the stages in life such as
brahmacarya,
grihastha and eventually,
sannyasi. Some Brahmanas contain sections that are
Aranyakas or
Upanishads in their own right.
List
Each Brahmana is associated with one of the four Vedas, and within the tradition of that Veda with a particular
shakha or school:
- Rigveda
- Samaveda
- Kauthuma: Tandyamaha or (PB), Brahmana
- Samavidhana Brahmana
- Arseya Brahmana
- Devatadhyaya or Daivata Brahmana
- Mantra or Chandogya Brahmana (MB)
- Samhitopanisad Brahmana
- Vamsa Brahmana
- Jaiminiya Brahmana (JB)
- Jaiminiya Arseya Brahmana
- Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana (JUB)
- Yajurveda
- Krishna: the Brahmana sections are integrated into the Samhitas:
- Maitrayani Samhita (MS) and an Aranyaka (= accented Maitr. Up.)
- (Caraka)Katha Samhita (KS); the Katha school has an additional fragmentary Brahmana (KathB) and Aranyaka (KathA)
- Kapisthalakatha Samhita (KpS), and a few fragments of its Brahmana
- Taittiriya Samhita (TS). The Taittiriya school has an additional Taittiriya Brahmana (TB) and Aranyaka (TA) as well as the late Vedic Vadhula Anvakhyana (Br.)
- Shukla
- Vajasaneyi Madhyandina: Shatapatha Brahmana, Madhyadina recension (SBM)
- Kanva: Shatapatha Brahmana, Kanva recension (SBK)
- Atharvaveda
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