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

* 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.

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.

In the Atharvaveda — where he first appears — and the Shatapatha Brahmana, Kubera is the chief of evil spirits or spirits of darkness, and son of Vaishravana.

The Shatapatha Brahmana calls him the Lord of thieves and criminals.

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 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 ).

The Shatapatha Brahmana emphasizes the royal nature of the Ashvamedha:

The Brhadaranyaka Upanishad ( a mystical appendix to the Shatapatha Brahmana and likely the oldest of the Upanishads ) has a creation myth where

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.

If the ascription of the Shatapatha Brahmana and the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad is genuine, Yājñavalkya has made important contributions to both philosophy, including the apophatic teaching of ' neti neti ', and to astronomy, describing the 95-year cycle to synchronize the motions of the sun and the moon.

The Shatapatha Brahmana (, " Brahmana of one hundred paths ", abbreviated ) is one of the prose texts describing the Vedic ritual, associated with the Shukla Yajurveda.

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

They vary greatly in length ; the edition of the Shatapatha Brahmana fills five volumes of the Sacred Books of the East, while the Vamsa Brahmana can be printed on a single page.

with some of the younger Brahmanas ( such as the Shatapatha Brahmana ), dating to about the 6th century BC.

** Shatapatha Brahmana, Madhyandina recension ( SBM )

** Shatapatha Brahmana, Kanva recension ( SBK )

An example of an anuṣṭubh stanza which fails the classical requirements of a shloka is from the Shatapatha Brahmana

Professor Vasudeva Sharana Agrawala admits that the Indians were familiar with the mleccha language right from the time of Shatapatha Brahmana.

The term is not attested in the Vedas, but occurs for the first time in the late Vedic text Shatapatha Brahmana.

Both the Kanva and Madhyandina Samhitas have been transmitted with the common anudatta, udatta, and svarita accentuation ( unlike the two-tone bhasika accent of the Shatapatha Brahmana ).

The earlier Shatapatha Brahmana of the period of the Vedas, informs us of an image in the shape of Purusha which was placed within the altar.

The state ' Brahmavarta ' is now identified on the borders of North Rajasthan and South Haryana, mainly in and around Shekhawati and Jhunjhunu region of Rajasthan and parts of Haryana in the districts of Mahendragarh and Rewari on the basis of images of paleochannals of these rivers from satellites, geo-morphological studies of the soils, which confirm presence of soil particals of Himalayan rocks in the ares represented by Saraswati river, and mentions of the area in Mahabharat, Rigved, Shatapatha Brahmana, Manusmriti and various Puranas.

The Shukla Yajurveda has two Upanishads associated with it: the Ishavasya, as the last part of te Samhita, and the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the last part of the Shatapatha Brahmana.

The liturgical text is in chapters 11 to 18 of the White Yajurveda ; the corresponding exposition of the ritual is in Books 6 to 9 of the Shatapatha Brahmana. A total of 29 sastra's and stuti's from Rigveda and Samaveda are also recited in entire Agnicayana rite.

However, the basic fact of the time period of existence of flood-figure Manu and Bhrigu, compariot and contemporary of Manu, who had his Ashram on the bank of ' Vadhusar River ' in the Vedic state of ' Brahmavarta ', who were the authors of Manusmriti, is ignored all together, which happens to be the period of great floods, 10, 000 years ago, after last ice age having mentions in Persian book Avesta, Indian Sanskrit text Shatapatha Brahmana and now scientific evidence is available on various websites.

The doctrine of karma dates from ancient times and besides the above author is mentioned in the Gautama dharma-sutra, Shatapatha Brahmana, Kathaaka-grhya-sutra, Chandogya Upanishad, Markandeya Purana and many others.

The Shatapatha Brahmana is a prose text associated with the White Yajur Veda that provides detailed descriptions of Vedic rituals.

The injunction in the Shatapatha Brahmana to release the victims is another reason why scholars have speculated that the Purushamedha originally involved actual killing of humans.

It is contained within the Shatapatha Brahmana, and its status as an independent Upanishad may be considered a secondary extraction of a portion of the Brahmana text.

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.

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.

Ravana was a Brahmana — Rakshasa.

The fee paid to the Brahmana for performance of a sacrifice was considered as a return for the priestly duties.

The Aitareya Brahmana refers to king Naganajit of Gandhara who was a contemporary of Janaka, king of Videha.

Similarly, Aitareya Rishi was son of a Daasa or criminal, but became a Brahmin of highest order and wrote one of classics Aitareya Brahmana and Aitareyopanishad.

Matanga was a Bhil sage who became a Brahmana.

Vallabhi was famous for its catholicity and the students from all over the country, including the Brahmana boys, visited it to have higher education in secular and religious subjects.

Kamboja Aupamanyava was a distinguished scholar / grammarian and finds a place in the line of great ancient Vedic teachers of Vamsa Brahmana of Sama Veda.

In 1863 he was offered a Professorship in Benares, India where he taught Sanskrit at Brahmana and Queen's Colleges until 1865, when he was offered the Chair of Sanskrit at Leiden University.

Aitareya Brahmana refers to king Naganajit of Gandhara who was a contemporary of raja Janaka of Videha.

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.

Aitareya Brahmana again notes that Uttarakuru was a devak-setra or divine land.

There he was to study the Brahmana ( ancient Hindu texts ) and the classic books of the territory.

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.

Devayani was the daughter of Sage Shukracharya, the guru of all Asuras, she had been cursed by sage Kacha that she would not marry another Brahmana.

The historian B. C. Law, writing in the 1920s, supposed that Upamanyu was the father of Kamboja Aupamanyava referred to in the Vamsa Brahmana ( 1. 18 ) of the Sama Veda.