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White Yajurvedaशुक्लयजुर्वेद · Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā
The Veda of the sacrificial formulas, in its Vājasaneyi (Mādhyandina) Saṃhitā: forty books of verses and prose formulas spoken by the priests at the new- and full-moon rites, the Soma sacrifice, the building of the fire altar and the horse sacrifice, ending with the Īśā Upanishad. Each verse is shown with the Sanskrit beside Ralph T. H. Griffith’s English translation of 1899.
Public domain. Griffith’s translation was published in 1899; Griffith died in 1906. The Sanskrit is the ancient text. 1894 verses are paired one to one by verse number.
The forty books
How to read these pages
- References are Book.Verse, for example 31.1 = Book 31 (the Puruṣa hymn), verse 1.
- The Sanskrit and the English are paired verse by verse on the verse numbers both print. The Sanskrit marks each verse as book.verse (for example 1.31).
- Where a number appears on one side only, the two editions divide the text differently; each book page says so.
Layers of this Veda
- Upanishads: Īśā (this Veda’s Book 40) and Bṛhadāraṇyaka, in F. Max Müller’s translation, on the Upanishads page.