Tag Samhita

Vedas Branches Text Translation

Similarly for the other three Vedas.

The Samhitas (Sanskrit saṃhitā, "collection"), are collections of metric texts ("mantras"). There are four "Vedic" Samhitas: the Rig-Veda, Sama-Veda, Yajur-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, most of which are available in several recensions (śākhā). In some contexts, the term Veda is used to refer to these Samhitas. This is the oldest layer of Vedic texts, apart from the Rigvedic hymns, which were probably essentially complete by 1200 BCE, dating to c. the 12th to 10th centuries BCE. The complete corpus of Vedic mantras as collected in Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance(1907) consists of some 89,000 padas (metric feet), of which 72,000 occur in the four Samhitas.

The Brahmanas are prose texts that discuss, in technical fashion, the solemn sacrificial rituals as well as comment on their meaning and many connected themes. Each of the Brahmanas is associated with one of the Samhitas or its recensions. The Brahmanas may either form separate texts or can be partly integrated into the text of the Samhitas. They may also include the Aranyakas and Upanishads.
The Aranyakas, "wilderness texts" or "forest treaties", were composed by people who meditated in the woods as recluses and are the third part of the Vedas. The texts contain discussions and interpretations of dangerous rituals (to be studied outside the settlement) and various sorts of additional materials. It is frequently read in secondary literature.
Īṣa, (ŚYV) "The Inner Ruler"
Kena (SV) "Who moves the world?"

What is Shukla Yajur Veda Shukla Yajur Upakarma Mantras

Why this difference?

Sage Yajnyavalkya was studying under a Guru ,Vaisampayana.

The Gurus, including Vaisampayana used meet regularly.

On one such occasion, Vaisampayan was indisposed and could not attend the meet.

Therefore, he nominated one of his Sishyas,(pupil )to attend the meeting.

Miffed at not being chosen to represent the Guru at the meet, Yajnyavalkya remonstrated with the Guru, Vaisampayana, questioning the Guru and accused him of favoritism.

In Vedic tradition no one disputes the Guru.

Vaisampayana ,therefore asked Yajnavalkya to return the Vedas taught by him, as Yajnyavalkya committed the cardinal sin of questioning the Guru and asked him to leave.

Yajnavalkya vomited what he had learnt.

The Saṃskṛt name for partridge is "Tittiri". As the Tittiri (partridge) birds ate this Veda, it is thenceforth called the Taittirīya Yajurveda. It is also known as Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda or Black-Yajurveda on account of it being a vomited substance. The Taittirīya Saṃhitā thus belongs to this Yajurveda.

Sage Yajnavalkya performed penance to the Sun God, Adhiya, Surya' seeking the Vedas.

Surya,assuming the form of a Horse, taught him the Vedas direct .

This is Shukla Yajur Veda,

This is the version in the Sri Vishnu Purana.

The version by Shukla Yajur Vedins is as under.

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