Veda · Shruti
Yajurveda
The Veda of the sacrificial formula (yajus), the prose handbook of the rite, transmitted in a White and a Black recension; the Brihadaranyaka closes its White branch.
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Appears in
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
There are four of them. The Rigveda, the Samaveda, the Yajurveda and the Atharvaveda.
- The Unwritten Library Treatise
For roughly three thousand years, the most important texts in India were never written down. They were heard, memorized syllable by syllable, and carried across a…
- The Four Fires Treatise
The Yajurveda takes its name from yajus , the sacrificial formula.