The Vedas constitute a corpus of orally composed religious texts that were produced by the priestly class of the earliest Sanskrit-speaking inhabitants of the South Asian subcontinent between approximately 1600 and 600 BCE. For centuries…
Vedas and Brāhmaṇas(10,336 words)
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Proferes, Theodore, “Vedas and Brāhmaṇas”, in: Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online, Edited by: Knut A. Jacobsen, Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, Vasudha Narayanan. Consulted online on 17 August 2019 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2212-5019_beh_COM_2020010>
First published online: 2018
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