Yajur Veda : has two Saṁhitās commonly known as the Krishna & the Shukla; each of their mantras is called a Yajus.
... Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda. Among the Vedas the Rig Veda occupies a prominent place. It consists of ten books or Mandalas and one thousand seventeen hymns or suktas. The total number of verses in Rig Veda is ten thousand five hundred eighty. Yajur Veda is classified broadly into Shukia Yajur Veda and Krishna Yajur Veda. Shukia Yajur Veda has thirty chapters and Krishna Yajur Veda has... 46. 59 RV., IX.83. 60. RV.,V.3. 61. RV.,X.l90. 62.RV;1..IO. 63. RV., 1.89.1 64.RV., 1.89.6. 65 RV., 1.89.8. 66 RV., 1.89.9. 67. Yajur Veda, Shiva Sankalpa, 34.1-6. 68.Vide., Sama Veda, 641-50. 69 RV., X. 192.2-4. Page 76 ...
... Veda, which are also huge, the mere text of the Veda itself is very vast. What is called Veda consists of four huge books: Page 45 the first one is called Rig Veda; the second is called Yajur Veda; the third is called Sama Veda; and the fourth is called Atharva Veda. These are four huge volumes. Rig Veda is the biggest. It has ten chapters and totally it has ten thousand verses. Ten thousand... publication, the mere Sanskrit text along with the English translation has come to twelve volumes, the Rig Veda alone. The Atharva Veda is half of the Rig Veda, the Same Veda is the shortest and the Yajur Veda is more than one fourth of the Rig Veda. Basically, the Rig Veda is regarded as the Veda, and Sri Aurobindo made a study of this Rig Veda in depth. But when this study was made by the Western ...
... poetical, because it adds to the fundamental idea the visualising and bringing home of the spiritual experience, the sustaining emotion of the thing felt and a touch of its life. And in the much older Yajur Veda we find breaking out with a different, a more moved and less reflective voice the same truth of experience, the same touch on the soul, "Where I am wounded, make me firm and whole. May all creatures ...
... silverless Rigveda must go past this date. In my belt I have to replace it with the earliest Indian literature denoting silver by rajatám hiranyam. This, according to Monier-Williams, 150 is the Yajur Veda. How far back in time should the Rigveda go? Here two facts have to be reckoned with. Greppin 151 has noted that "the term for horse and its cognates are known throughout the Indo-European ...
... Vedic texts. And yet a brief statement could be useful and may serve the limited purpose that we have in view. Significance of Agni as the First Step Among the four Vedas (Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda), Rig Veda is preeminent. In this Veda, the largest number of hymns are addressed and related to Agni, the mystic fire. This fact is significant, and it provides the central ...
... Sāmaveda; Āpastamba, Hiranyakeshi, Baudhāyana, Bhārdwaja, and Vaikhānasa are related to the Taittiriya Shākhā of Krishna Yajurveda; Mānava Shrauta Sutra is related to Maitrayāni Shākhā of Krishna Yajur Veda (this Sūtra is believed to be the basis of the famous Manu Samriti); Kātyāyana Shrauta Sūtra is related to Shukia Yajurveda; Vaitāna Sūtra is related to Atharvaveda, and this Sutra is also related ...
... × 293 On the Veda, 46 × 294 Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, Atharva Veda. × 295 According to Indian tradition, each cycle has four periods: Satya-yuga ...
... protection: the builder of Karma Yogins; the ageless, the Consort of Truth; manifold her strength; she our sure refuge encompasses the Vast: perfect is her ministry. (Yajur Veda, 21.5.) Page 499 The Mother CHAPTER 36 Her Lonely Strength I The long period of visible collaboration between the Mother and Sri Aurobindo had ended in ...
... तत्रापरा ऋग्वेदो यजुर्वेदः सामवेदोऽथर्ववेदः शिक्षा कल्पो व्याकरणं निरुक्तं छन्दो ज्योतिषमिति । अथ परा यया तदक्षरमधिगम्यते ॥५॥ Page 131 5) Of which the lower, the Rig Veda and the Yajur Veda and the Sama Veda and the Atharva Veda, chanting, ritual, grammar, etymological interpretation, and prosody and astronomy. And then the higher by which is known the Immutable. यत् तदद्रेश्यम ...
... mid-world, I have arisen from the mid-world to heaven, from the level of the firmament of heaven I have gone to the Sun-world, the Light.(The four planes of Matter, Life, pure Mind and Supermind.) Yajur Veda. (17. 67.) It is now possible and necessary, since we have formed a sufficiently clear idea of the significance of the evolutionary manifestation in earth-nature and the final turn it ...
... born and the flowing Ocean of being, from the Ocean Time arose controller of all that lives and sees, the Creator (ordered) heaven and earth and the mid-world and the world of Light. [X.190.1–3] Yajur Veda When he arises and builds a perfect world on earth let us then dig out the Fire in its perfect image and climb to the supreme heaven, the world of Light. [XI.22] He saw That hidden in the secret ...
... recognised this truth so perfectly that he uses the gods and the Page 177 senses as equivalent terms in his great commentary. Finally in the Isha Upanishad,—itself a part of the White Yajur Veda and a work, as I have shown elsewhere, full of the most lofty & deep Vedantic truth, in which the eternal problems of human existence are briefly proposed and masterfully solved,—we find Surya and ...
... world, 'Swar: 'I have arisen from earth to the mid-world [life], I have arisen from the mid-world to heaven [mind], from the level of the firmament of heaven I have gone to the Sun-world, the Light' (Yajur-veda 17.67). And it is said, 'Mortals, they achieved immortality' (Rig-veda I.110.4). What then was their secret? How did they pass from a 'heaven of mind' to the 'great heaven' without leaving the body ...
... art strength, bestow strength on me. Thou art virility, bestow virility on me. Thou art force of action, bestow the same on me. Thou art prowess, bestow prowess on me. (Yajur-Veda, 19.9) The teacher and his pupil are together united in an aspiration to become strong: Together may we make unto us strength and virility. (Taittiriya Upanishad, 2.1) There ...
... motion and action in the consciousness of another, but when It is approached by the thought, It vanishes." Or let us take the following from the Isha Upanishad, which is also the last part of the Yajur Veda: "One unmoving that is swifter than Mind, That the Gods reach not, for It progresses ever in front. That, standing, passes beyond others as they run. In That the Master of Life establishes the ...
... Notes and References ' It is believed that in its original condition Veda was one, but it was Rishi Vyasa who divided it into collections, Samhitas, Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, and Atharva Veda. The antiquity of the Veda has been a subject of discussion and dispute. But it is acknowledged that it is the oldest available record in the world. '2-Rig Veda ...
... experiences of the ancestors (pitarah, poorvajanah). Veda thus describes the knowledge contained in the pre-Vedic tradition as also the Vedic tradition proper. Among the four Vedas (Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, and Atharva Veda), the Rig Veda is pre-eminent. According to one tradition, Atharva Veda was a later addition. The Rig Veda consists of 10 Mandalas (parts) and each Mandala consists ...
... Significance of Indian Yoga Appendix Significance of The Veda in The Context of Indian Religion And Spirituality The four Vedas (Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda and Atharva Veda) are samhitas, collections or compilations of selections made by Veda Vyasa. There was evidently at that time a larger body of compositions, and since they spoke of the old and ...
... Life Divine, out of a total of about 165 epigraphs distributed between fifty-six chapters, as many as 85 are from the Upanishads, nearly 60 from the Vedas (mostly from the Rig Veda, and one from Yajur Veda and three from Atharva Veda), over 20 from the Gita, and one each from the Vishnu Purana and Sankara's Vivekachudamani. To sustain an argument (be it pūrva-paksa or siddhānta) by reference ...
... Swar : "I have arisen from earth to the mid-world [life], I have arisen from the mid-worid to heaven [mind], from the level of the firmament of heaven I have gone to the Sun-world, the Light" (Yajur Veda. 17.67). And it is said, "Mortals, they achieved immortality" (Rig Veda, I.110.4). What then is their secret? How did they rise from the "heaven of mind" to the "great heaven" without leaving this ...
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