Yajnavalkya
Vṛddha-Yājñavalkya and Bṛhad-Yājñavalkya (fragments)
Traditional attribution
Vṛddha-Yājñavalkya and Bṛhad-Yājñavalkya (fragments)
वृद्धयाज्ञवल्क्य · बृहद्याज्ञवल्क्य
Medieval legal digests (nibandha) collect verses attributed to these works on domestic ritual, impurity and procedure. Their existence as independent texts and their relation to the Yājñavalkya Smṛti are uncertain; they are listed here to complete the corpus circulating under the sage's name.
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Authorship note
Lost treatises on dharma that medieval commentators quote under the name of Yājñavalkya "the Elder" or "the Great". They survive only in quotations.
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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)
- The dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Janaka in the Mahābhārata · 100
- Yājñavalkya Śikṣā (treatise on phonetics)
Sources
- Wikipedia (en inglés), «Yajnavalkya», consultada el 26 de octubre de 2026.
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