Yajnavalkya
The dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Janaka in the Mahābhārata
Traditional attribution
The dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Janaka in the Mahābhārata
याज्ञवल्क्यजनकसंवाद (Mahābhārata, Śāntiparvan 12.298 y ss.)
King Janaka (Daivarāti) questions Yājñavalkya about the principles of nature, the guṇas, the creation and dissolution of the world and the distinction between spirit and matter, in the terms of the Sāṃkhya-Yoga school. In the same episode Yājñavalkya tells how he obtained the white Yajus from the Sun. It is one of the sources of epic Sāṃkhya, earlier than the Sāṃkhya Kārikā.
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Authorship note
An episode of the Mokṣadharma section of the Mahābhārata, which Bhīṣma tells Yudhiṣṭhira as "an ancient story". It is an epic reworking, not a text by the Vedic figure.
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English
Yajnavalkya
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Santi Parva
The Conscious LibraryThe Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Santi Parva
Bharata Press, 1891
Translation: Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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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
- 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)
- Vṛddha-Yājñavalkya and Bṛhad-Yājñavalkya (fragments)
- Yājñavalkya Śikṣā (treatise on phonetics)
Sources
- Mahābhārata, Śāntiparvan 12.298 y ss. (edición crítica de Poona): diálogo de Yājñavalkya y Janaka (Daivarāti). Trad. inglesa de Kisari Mohan Ganguli, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Calcuta, 1883–1896.
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