Yajnavalkya
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā (White Yajurveda)
Traditional attribution
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā (White Yajurveda)
वाजसनेयिसंहिता / शुक्लयजुर्वेद (Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā)
The saṃhitā of the "white" Yajurveda, so called because it separates the formulas (yajus) from their prose explanation, which is reserved for the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, unlike the "black" Yajurveda. It has forty chapters with the formulas of the great solemn rites; the last is the Īśā Upaniṣad. It survives in the Mādhyandina and Kāṇva recensions.
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Authorship note
A collection of sacrificial formulas whose transmission tradition attributes to Yājñavalkya, who is said to have received it from the Sun (Bṛhadāraṇyaka 6.5.3; Viṣṇu Purāṇa 3.5). Like every Vedic text it is regarded as "not of human authorship" (apauruṣeya); the attribution is traditional.
Editions and translations
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English
Yajnavalkya
The Texts of the White Yajurveda
The Conscious LibraryThe Texts of the White Yajurveda
E. J. Lazarus, 1899
Translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith
Benarés; dominio público. Reimpresión de Munshiram Manoharlal (1987): ISBN 9788121500470.
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
- Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (The Brāhmaṇa of a Hundred Paths) · 750
- 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
- Olivelle, Patrick (ed. y trad.). The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1998 (South Asia Research). Introducción (datación, pp. 12–13) y Bṛhadāraṇyaka 2.4, 3.1–3.9, 4.1–4.5, 6.5.
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