Panchavimsha Brahmana
The Tandya Mahabrahmana (or the Praudha Brahmana) ("great" Brahmana), also known as the Panchavimsha Brahmana from its consisting of twenty-five prapathakas (chapters) is a Brahmana of the Samaveda, belonging to both of its Kauthuma and Ranayaniya shakhas. It deals with the duties of the udgātṛs generally, and especially of the various kinds of chants.
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Quotes
[edit]- The world of heaven is as far removed from this world, they say, as a thousand earths stacked one above the other.
- About the distance of the sun from the earth. Pañcavimsa Brahmana (PB) 16.8.6, quoted in Subhash Kak, Vedic astronomy and early Indian chronology in: Bryant, E. F., & Patton, L. L. (2005). The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge page 319
- At a distance of a journey of forty days on horseback from the spot where the Sarasvati is lost (in the sand of the desert), (is situated) Plaksa Prasravaja.
- Pañchavimsa Brahmana (Calad 1931: 636) (25.10.16). Calad, W., 1931 [1982]. Pañchavinmsa Brahmaja. Calcutta: Asiatic Society.in Bryant, E. F., & Patton, L. L. (2005). The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge page 65
