Yajnavalkya
Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (The Brāhmaṇa of a Hundred Paths)
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Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (The Brāhmaṇa of a Hundred Paths)
शतपथब्राह्मण (Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa)
The longest of the Vedic prose treatises on sacrifice. It explains, rite by rite, the meaning of the new- and full-moon offerings, the soma sacrifice, the great fire altar (agnicayana), royal consecration and the horse sacrifice, and includes famous narratives such as the flood and Manu, Purūravas and Urvaśī, and Videgha Māthava, which tells of the eastward spread of the sacrificial fire. Its later books contain the first speculative debates (brahmodya) involving Yājñavalkya, Uddālaka Āruṇi and Janaka.
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Authorship note
A collective work of the Vājasaneyin school of the White Yajurveda, in Mādhyandina (14 kāṇḍas) and Kāṇva (17) recensions. Yājñavalkya is the authority quoted in kāṇḍas 1–5 and 11–13 and the protagonist of book 14 (the Bṛhadāraṇyaka); kāṇḍas 6–10 rely on Śāṇḍilya. Witzel suggests he may have taken part in redacting the saṃhitā; tradition attributes the whole school to him.
Editions and translations
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English
Yajnavalkya
Satapatha-Brahmana
The Conscious LibrarySatapatha-Brahmana
Low Price Publications, 1996
Translation: Julius Eggeling
ISBN 9788175360129
Reimpresión india de la traducción de Eggeling.
Yajnavalkya
The Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa according to the Text of the Mādhyandina School (SBE 12, 26, 41, 43, 44)
The Conscious LibraryThe Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa according to the Text of the Mādhyandina School (SBE 12, 26, 41, 43, 44)
Clarendon Press, 1882
Translation: Julius Eggeling
Cinco volúmenes, 1882–1900; dominio público. Reimpresión de Motilal Banarsidass (1966 y ss.).
Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Yajnavalkya
The Çatapatha-Brāhmaṇa in the Mādhyandina-Çākhā
The Conscious LibraryThe Çatapatha-Brāhmaṇa in the Mādhyandina-Çākhā
Ferd. Dümmler / Williams and Norgate, 1855
Edición de Albrecht Weber (Berlín-Londres); dominio público.
Yajnavalkya
शतपथब्राह्मणम्
The Conscious Libraryशतपथब्राह्मणम्
Wikisource en sánscrito
Texto por kāṇḍa.
Other works by Yajnavalkya
- Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (The Great Forest Upaniṣad) · 650
- Yājñavalkya-kāṇḍa (Muni-kāṇḍa): the debate at Janaka's court and the teachings to the king · 650
- The dialogue with Maitreyī · 650
- Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā (White Yajurveda) · 800
- Yājñavalkya Smṛti (Yājñavalkya's Treatise on Dharma) · 400
- Yoga Yājñavalkya
- Bṛhad Yogi Yājñavalkya Smṛti
- Jābāla Upaniṣad and Yājñavalkya Upaniṣad (Upaniṣads of renunciation)
- The dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Janaka in the Mahābhārata · 100
- Vṛddha-Yājñavalkya and Bṛhad-Yājñavalkya (fragments)
- Yājñavalkya Śikṣā (treatise on phonetics)
Sources
- Eggeling, Julius (trad.). The Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa according to the Text of the Mādhyandina School, 5 vols. (Sacred Books of the East, vols. 12, 26, 41, 43, 44). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882–1900.
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