Question

Describe how brahmanism (vedic religion) evolved into hinduism during this era. what factors contributed to this development?

Answer 1

Brahmanism is a religion of transition between the Vedic religion (completed around the 6th century BC) and the Hindu religion (which began around the third century AD).

According to other authors, Brahmanism (or Brahmanical religion) is the same as Vedicism (or Vedic religion).

Maybe since the 4th century BC C. began to know the Upanishad, which were stories (written by Brahmins) where a Brahmin teacher taught his disciple about a unique God who was superior to the Vedic gods. They preferred meditation to opulent animal sacrifices and the ritual consumption of the soma psychotropic drug.

The Brahmins became the sole repositories of knowledge about the unique Brahman (the formless Divine, generator of all gods). There were no longer Chatrías who had spiritual knowledge, but had to become disciples of a Brahmin at some point in their lives.

From the third century or II a. C. they began to recite everywhere the extensive poems Majábharata and Ramaiana as well as the doctrinal treatises (agamas) of the different dárshanas (religious schools) that constitute a body of knowledge that has endured throughout history and has more than 280 million faithful.