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Black Yajurvedaकृष्णयजुर्वेद · Taittirīya Saṃhitā

The Taittirīya Saṃhitā of the Black Yajurveda, where the sacrificial formulas are mixed with the priests’ explanations of them: seven books in 44 parts (prapāṭhaka) and 651 sections (anuvāka). Each section is shown with the Sanskrit beside Arthur Berriedale Keith’s English translation of 1914.

Public domain. Keith’s translation was published in 1914, in the Harvard Oriental Series. The Sanskrit is the ancient text. 576 sections have both sides.

The seven books

Book I (Kāṇḍa १)

1.1Prapāṭhaka 1 · 14 sections 1.2Prapāṭhaka 2 · 14 sections 1.3Prapāṭhaka 3 · 14 sections 1.4Prapāṭhaka 4 · 46 sections 1.5Prapāṭhaka 5 · 11 sections 1.6Prapāṭhaka 6 · 12 sections 1.7Prapāṭhaka 7 · 13 sections 1.8Prapāṭhaka 8 · 22 sections

Book II (Kāṇḍa २)

2.1Prapāṭhaka 1 · 11 sections 2.2Prapāṭhaka 2 · 12 sections 2.3Prapāṭhaka 3 · 14 sections 2.4Prapāṭhaka 4 · 14 sections 2.5Prapāṭhaka 5 · 12 sections 2.6Prapāṭhaka 6 · 12 sections

Book III (Kāṇḍa ३)

3.1Prapāṭhaka 1 · 11 sections 3.2Prapāṭhaka 2 · 11 sections 3.3Prapāṭhaka 3 · 11 sections 3.4Prapāṭhaka 4 · 11 sections 3.5Prapāṭhaka 5 · 11 sections

Book IV (Kāṇḍa ४)

4.1Prapāṭhaka 1 · 11 sections 4.2Prapāṭhaka 2 · 11 sections 4.3Prapāṭhaka 3 · 13 sections 4.4Prapāṭhaka 4 · 12 sections 4.5Prapāṭhaka 5 · 11 sections 4.6Prapāṭhaka 6 · 9 sections 4.7Prapāṭhaka 7 · 15 sections

Book V (Kāṇḍa ५)

5.1Prapāṭhaka 1 · 11 sections 5.2Prapāṭhaka 2 · 12 sections 5.3Prapāṭhaka 3 · 12 sections 5.4Prapāṭhaka 4 · 12 sections 5.5Prapāṭhaka 5 · 24 sections 5.6Prapāṭhaka 6 · 23 sections 5.7Prapāṭhaka 7 · 26 sections

Book VI (Kāṇḍa ६)

6.1Prapāṭhaka 1 · 11 sections 6.2Prapāṭhaka 2 · 11 sections 6.3Prapāṭhaka 3 · 11 sections 6.4Prapāṭhaka 4 · 11 sections 6.5Prapāṭhaka 5 · 11 sections 6.6Prapāṭhaka 6 · 11 sections

Book VII (Kāṇḍa ७)

7.1Prapāṭhaka 1 · 20 sections 7.2Prapāṭhaka 2 · 20 sections 7.3Prapāṭhaka 3 · 20 sections 7.4Prapāṭhaka 4 · 22 sections 7.5Prapāṭhaka 5 · 25 sections

How to read these pages

References are Book.Part.Section, for example 5.5.1. Keith prints them in small Roman numerals (v. 5. 1).
Keith marks the formulas inside a section with letters (a, b, c). The italic line above a section is his heading for the rite.
A few of Keith’s section numbers are misprinted in the transcription (for example “vii. 6. 16.” for 7.5.16); they are placed by their order.

Layers of this Veda

Upanishads: Taittirīya and Kaṭha, in F. Max Müller’s translation, on the Upanishads page.

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English: Arthur Berriedale Keith, The Veda of the Black Yajus School entitled Taittiriya Sanhita, Harvard Oriental Series 18–19 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1914), public domain (published before 1929). Transcription: Internet Sacred Text Archive (public-domain file; credit link requested by the archive). Sanskrit: Sanskrit Wikisource. The ancient text is public domain; Wikisource page text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.