yajus
यजुस् yajusA sacrificial formula, usually in prose; the basic unit of the Yajurveda.
Where this term appears
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
It supplies the yajus , the prose formulas a priest murmurs while performing the ritual acts, the pouring, the placing, the offering.
- The Four Fires Treatise
The Yajurveda takes its name from yajus , the sacrificial formula.
- The Taittiriya Upanishad: the ladder of selves, from food to bliss Treatise
Within that is manomaya , the self made of mind, and its limbs are telling: they are the Vedas themselves, the Yajus for a head, the Rik and the Saman for its sides (2.3).
- Rasa: emotion, beauty, and the arts as a spiritual science Philosophy
So Brahma made a fifth Veda, the Natyaveda , and he made it out of the other four: recitation drawn from the Rigveda , song from the Sama, the art of gesture from the Yajus, and rasa itself from the Atharva.