what does Brahmana mean?

BRAHMANA as NOUN

Meaning
- prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the Brahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals
Hypernyms(s) Brahmana is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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