Footnote 75: The Śatapatha Brâhmana has a curious legend (XI.
The Vedic period is followed by what is usually termed Brahmanism, the religion that is inculcated in the rituals called Br[=a]hmana and its later development in the Upanishads.
In the later part of the great 'Br[=a]hmana of the hundred paths' there seems to be a more modern view inculcated in regard to the fate of the dead.
Its most simple and ancient form is found in the Çatapatha Brâhmana of the Rig-Veda.
According to the religious law of the Hindus, a Brâhmana shall not suffer corporal punishment for any offence.
The Brâhmana who has completed his studentship should without tiring "perform works of {551} charity with faith.
According to the Laws of Manu, a Brâhmana "may punish his foes by his own power alone," speech being his weapon.
Hindus swear on a copy of the Sanskrit haribans, or with Ganges water in their hands, or touch the legs of a Brâhmana in taking an oath.
With reference to all this a doubt arises whether these mantras and the sacrificial works referred to in the Brâhmana texts form parts of the meditations enjoined in the Upanishads or not.
And from a Brâhmana one accepts food without any objection, while one refuses food from a low person.
That mantras of this kind and Brâhmana passages relative to the Pravargya and the like are placed at the beginning of Upanishads is owing to their having, like the latter, to be studied in the forest.
Nor again will it avail to plead that the sacred texts originate the demanded final cognition in the mind of the Brâhmana as soon as meditation has dispelled the obstructive imagination of plurality; for in the same way, i.
Smriti; for Smriti says, 'A Brâhmana is to remain outside the âsramas not even for one day.
The mantra thus is meant to render clear the meaning of the Brâhmana passage.
The same point is rendered clear by all the following Brâhmana passages and mantras: 'from that same Self sprang ether,' and so on.
The Vâjasaneyins have a Brâhmana referring to the Pravargya, 'The gods sat down for a sattra-celebration.
Him I call indeed a Brâhmana who without hurting any creatures, whether feeble or strong, does not kill nor cause slaughter.
It advantages a Brâhmana not a little if he holds his mind back from the pleasures of life; the more all wish to injure has vanished, the more all pain will cease.
Him I call indeed a Brâhmana who is bright like the moon, pure, serene, undisturbed, and in whom all gayety is extinct.
Him I call indeed a Brâhmana who, after cutting the strap and the thong, the rope with all that pertains to it, has destroyed all obstacles, and is awakened.
If the Brâhmana has reached the other shore in both laws, in restraint and contemplation, all bonds vanish from him who has obtained knowledge.
Him I call indeed a Brâhmana who in this world, having abandoned all desires, travels about without a home, and in whom all concupiscence is extinct.
Him I call indeed a Brâhmana who, having abandoned all longings, travels about without a home, and in whom all covetousness is extinct.
I do not call a man a Brâhmana because of his origin or of his mother.
Him I call indeed a Brâhmana who, after cutting all fetters, never trembles, is free from bonds and unshackled.
Him I call indeed a Brâhmana who has left what gives pleasure and what gives pain, who is cold, and free from all germs of renewed life: the hero who has conquered all the worlds.
Yes, a very important one, a great Brāhmana pandit named Subhadra.
Returning to the Brâhmana period, we notice that between the Sûtras and Bârahmanas come the Aranyakas, which are books written for the recluse.
There is no allusion to writing during the whole of the Brâhmana period, nor even through the Sûtra period.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hmana" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
