Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun brahmana

1 sense of brahmana

Sense 1
Brahmana -- (prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the bahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals)
       INSTANCE OF=> Vedic literature, Veda -- ((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)