Aitareya Brahmana

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Brahmana text Hindu scripture Vedic text

Aitareya Brahmana is an ancient Vedic prose text of the Rigveda that provides ritual instructions, mythological narratives, and theological interpretations central to early Hindu sacrificial practice.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Kausitaki Brahmana	2
Aitareya Aranyaka	1
Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rigveda	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Brahmana text ⓘ Hindu scripture ⓘ Vedic text ⓘ
aim	to explain meaning and efficacy of sacrifice ⓘ
associatedWith	Aitareya school ⓘ Shakala Shakha of the Rigveda NERFINISHED ⓘ
audience	Vedic priests ⓘ
category	Rigvedic Brahmana NERFINISHED ⓘ
contains	mythological narratives ⓘ ritual instructions ⓘ theological interpretations ⓘ
corpus	Shruti literature ⓘ Vedic Brahmanas NERFINISHED ⓘ
describes	Agnihotra ritual NERFINISHED ⓘ Soma sacrifice ⓘ Vedic sacrificial rituals ⓘ horse sacrifice (Ashvamedha) ⓘ
focusesOn	early Vedic sacrificial practice ⓘ
genre	prose ⓘ
hasInterpretationTradition	Mīmāṃsā school NERFINISHED ⓘ Vedānta school NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart	Aitareya Aranyaka NERFINISHED ⓘ Aitareya Upanishad NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Aitareya Aranyaka NERFINISHED ⓘ Aitareya Upanishad NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	Vedic Sanskrit ⓘ
literaryForm	ritual exegesis ⓘ
ontology	links ritual acts with cosmic order (ṛta) ⓘ
partOf	Rigveda NERFINISHED ⓘ
preservation	maintained in certain Vedic lineages ⓘ
region	ancient Indian subcontinent ⓘ
relatedWork	Kausitaki Brahmana NERFINISHED ⓘ Shatapatha Brahmana NERFINISHED ⓘ Taittiriya Brahmana NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Hinduism ⓘ
script	originally transmitted orally ⓘ
status	canonical text of the Rigvedic tradition ⓘ
studiedBy	Vedic scholars ⓘ
subject	cosmology ⓘ role of priests in sacrifice ⓘ sacred speech (Vāc) ⓘ symbolism of ritual actions ⓘ
timePeriod	late second millennium BCE to early first millennium BCE (approximate) ⓘ
tradition	Śrauta ritual tradition ⓘ
transmission	Vedic oral tradition ⓘ
usedIn	Vedic ritual education ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Brahmana → hasPart → Aitareya Brahmana ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kausitaki Brahmana

Brahmanas → hasPart → Aitareya Brahmana ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kausitaki Brahmana

Aitareya Upanishad → associatedWith → Aitareya Brahmana ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aitareya Aranyaka

Aitareya Upanishad → sourceCollection → Aitareya Brahmana ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rigveda