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Neither ceremony is described in these poems with the full detail which is given of the vaidik rite in the _Aitareya-Bráhmaṇam_; but the allusion that Ráma was inaugurated by _Vaśishṭha_ and the other Bráhmanas in the same manner as Indra by the Vasus … and the observation which is made in some passages that a certain rite of the inauguration was performed
Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866
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Aitareya-brâhma_n_a, containing the earliest speculations of the
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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In the preface to his edition of the Aitareya-brâhma_n_a, Dr. Haug has thrown out some new ideas on the chronology of Vedic literature which deserve careful consideration.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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Aitareya-brâhma_n_a, just published at Bombay by Dr. Martin Haug, the
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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Aitareya-brâhma_n_a, translation, and notes, would probably never have been published, if they had not received the patronage of the Bombay
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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The Sattras, which lasted for one year, were, as one may learn from a careful perusal of the fourth book of the Aitareya-brâhma_n_a, nothing but an imitation of the sun's yearly course.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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Hindu not only the 'Collection' of hymns, but all the library connected with this collection; for instance, the two Br [= a] hmanas (of the Rig Veda), namely, the Aitareya and the K [= a] ush [= i] taki (or Ç [= a] nkh [= a] yana).
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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It is only a small work of about two hundred pages, but it presupposes so thorough a familiarity with all the externals of the religion of the Brahmans, the various offices of their priests, the times and seasons of their sacred rites, the form of their innumerable sacrificial utensils, and the preparation of their offerings, that no amount of Sanskrit scholarship, such as can be gained in England, would have been sufficient to unravel the intricate speculations concerning the matters which form the bulk of the Aitareya-brâhma_n_a.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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Also Aitareya Âraṇ. book v.] [Footnote 238: Cf. the ritual for the Horse sacrifice.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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I and XV, include the oldest and most important.] [Footnote 179: Thus the Aitareya Brâhmana is followed by the Aitareya
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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