The Satapatha Brahmana ( 9th century BCE ) contains rules for ritual geometric constructions that are similar to the Sulba Sutras.

The story of a great flood is mentioned in ancient Hindu texts, particularly the Satapatha Brahmana.

The Satapatha Brahmana mentions that Rudra is the prince, while Rudras are his subjects.

The great flood finds mention in Hinduism texts like the Satapatha Brahmana, where in the Matsya Avatar takes place to save the pious and the first man, Manu, and advises him to build a giant boat.

In the Satapatha Brahmana, the number of Ādityas is eight in some passages, and in other texts of the same Brahmana, twelve Adityas are mentioned.

* The Eggeling translation of the Satapatha Brahmana, at sacred-texts. com

The Aranyaka of the White Yajurvda is part of its Brahmana: Satapatha Br.

The Satapatha Brahmana also tells a similar tale: Prajapati created Surabhi from his breath.

The narrative of Kamayani is based on a popular mythological story, first mentioned in Satapatha Brahmana.

In Hindu mythology, texts such as the Satapatha Brahmana mention the puranic story of a great flood, wherein the Matsya Avatar of Vishnu warns the first man, Manu, of the impending flood, and also advises him to build a giant boat.

The story finds mention in early Hindu scriptures like the Satapatha Brahmana and is nearly parallel to Biblical Noah's Ark legend.

It is mentioned as a region in the later texts of the Satapatha Brahmana and the Kalpasutras.

The Satapatha Brahmana and the Taittiriya Samhita were probably also aware of the Pythagoras theorem.

The Satapatha Brahmana ( XIII. 5. 4. 21 ) mentions that Bharata seized the sacrificial horse of the Satvatas.

The Vrishnis are mentioned in a number of Vedic texts, which include the Taittiriya Samhita ( III. 2. 9. 3 ), the Taittiriya Brahmana ( III. 10. 9. 15 ), the Satapatha Brahmana ( III. 1. 1. 4 ) and the Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana ( I. 6. 1 ).

Eggeling was translator and editor of the Satapatha Brahmana in 5 volumes of the monumental Sacred Books of the East series edited by Max Müller, author of the main article on Sanskrit in the Encyclopædia Britannica, and curator of the University Library from 1900 to 1913.

It is interesting to note that among the entire lists of ancient Vedic teachers of the Satapatha Brahmana as well as the Vamsa Brahmana, Kamboja Aupamanyava appears as the first " Aupamanyava "' ( i. e. son or descendant of Upamanyu ).

It exclusively deals with the Parvargya ritual, and is followed by the Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad ( Satapatha Br.

It occurs several times in the Shatapatha Brahmana in the sense of " non-injury " without a moral connotation.

The Brahmana caste was further subdivided by these Dutch ethnographers into two: Siwa and Buda.

This classification was to accommodate the observed marriage between higher caste Brahmana men with lower caste women.

Ancient India had two philosophical streams of thought: The Shramana philosophical schools, represented by Jainism movement, and the Brahmana / Vedic / Puranic schools represented by Vedanta, Vaishnava and other movements.

* Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern ( or H. Kern, 1833 – 1917 ), Dutch linguist and former head of Brahmana College and of Queen's College, Benares

This sarpasattra material was often considered an independent tale added to a version of the Mahabharata by " thematic attraction " ( Minkowski 1991 ), and considered to have a particularly close connection to Vedic ( Brahmana ) literature.

The Panchavimsha Brahmana ( at 25. 15. 3 ) enumerates the officiant priests of a sarpasattra among whom the names Dhrtarashtra and Janamejaya, two main characters of the Mahabharatas sarpasattra, as well as Takshaka, the name of a snake in the Mahabharata, occur.

The Adityas are a group of solar deities, from the Brahmana period numbering twelve.

The Jaiminiya Brahmana ( 2. 297 ) speaks of the ' diving under ( upamajjana ) of the Sarasvati ', and the Tandya Brahmana ( or Pancavimsa Br.

Vedic ritual is annotated in many priestly schools in Brahmana commentaries, and the earliest Upanishads mark the beginning of Vedanta philosophy.

* Emergence of the Brahmana period of Vedic Sanskrit, probable composition of the Shatapatha Brahmana, and the first beginning of the Upanishadic and Vedantic traditions of Hinduism.

* 900s BC: India — Vedic India — Yajnavalkya writes the Shatapatha Brahmana, in which he describes the motions of the sun and the moon.

However, by the time that the Brahmana texts were written, the character of the Asura had become negative.

Ravana was a Brahmana — Rakshasa.

He appears as a creator deity or supreme God Viswakarma Vedic deities in RV 10 and in Brahmana literature.

Seven Rishis ( the Saptarshi ) are often mentioned in the Brahmanas and later works as typical representatives of the pre-historic or mythical period ; in Shatapatha Brahmana 14. 5. 2. 6 ( Brhad Aranyaka Upanisad ), their names are Uddālaka Āruni ( also called Gautama ), Bharadvaja, Vishvamitra, Jamadagni, Vasishtha, Kashyapa, and Atri.

It is mentioned in the Atharvaveda ( 11: 7: 9 ) and described in detail in the Yajurveda Samhita and the Shatapatha Brahmana ( 12: 4: 1 ).

The Shatapatha Brahmana of Madhyandina School was translated into English by Julius Eggeling, in the late 19th century, in 5 volumes published as part of the Sacred Books of the East series. Whereas the English translation of Kanva School is done by W. E. Caland in 3 parts.

** Samavidhana Brahmana comprises 3 prapathakas.

** Devatadhyaya or Daivata Brahmana comprises 3 khandas, having 26, 11 and 25 kandikas respectively.

The Ashvamedha ( Sanskrit: aśvamedhá ; " horse sacrifice ") was one of the most important royal rituals of Vedic religion, described in detail in the Yajurveda ( TS 7. 1-5, VSM 22 – 25 and the pertaining commentary in the Shatapatha Brahmana ŚBM 13. 1 – 5 ).

In the Taittiriya Brahmana ( I. 6. 1. 4 ), Nirṛti is described as dark, dressed in dark clothes and her sacrificial shares are dark husks.

In the Shatapatha Brahmana ( X. 1. 2. 9 ), she is associated with pain and as the southwest quarter is her region, pain is associated with the southwest.

The twenty-first verse says the following ; " For the salvation of his soul the King, after paying his obeisance at the little feet of Vamana Avatar ( the incarnation of Vishnu as a midget Brahmana ), went about constructing a wondrous temple for Vishnu Hari ( Shri Rama ) with marvelous pillars and structure of stone reaching the skies and culminating in a superb top with a massive sphere of gold and projecting shafts in the sky-a temple so grand that no other King in the History of the nation had ever built before.

Yājñavalkya ( Devanagari: य ा ज ् ञवल ् क ् य ) of Mithila was a legendary sage of Vedic India, credited with the authorship of the Shatapatha Brahmana ( including the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ), besides the Yoga Yajnavalkya and the Yājñavalkya Smṛti.

** Kapisthalakatha Samhita ( KpS ), and a few fragments of its Brahmana

The Taittiriya Shakha consists of Taittiriya Samhita ( having seven kandas ), Taittiriya Brahmana ( having three kandas ), Taittiriya Aranyaka ( having seven prashnas ) ( See Aranyaka Literature ), Taittiriya Upanishad ( having three prashnas or vallis – Shiksha valli, Ananda valli and Bhrigu valli ) and the Mahanarayana Upanishad.

After the scheme is accomplished ( and the Brahmana marries the daughter of the King of Asuras ), Rajavahan returns to earth, only to find that his friends have all scattered away.

He translated, for Max Müller's Sacred Books of the East, the Hymns of the Atharva-Veda ( 1897 ); contributed to the Buhler-Kielhorn Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde the section The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha Brahmana ( 1899 ); was first to edit the Kauika-Sutra ( 1890 ), and in 1907 published, in the Harvard Oriental series, A Vedic Concordance.

According to the Aitareya Brahmana ( VIII. 14 ), the Satvatas were a southern people held in subjection by the Bhojas.

According to the Aitareya Brahmana (( VIII. 14 ), the Bhojas were a southern people, whose princes held the Satvatas in subjection.