Provisional Edition

Yajurvedavicāra

Edited by Aniruddha Kar, Anusrita Mandal, Deepro Chakraborty, Parthasarathi Sil

Published in 2021 by Deepro Chakraborty, Anusrita Mandal, Parthasarathi Sil, Aniruddha Kar in Edmonton, Calcutta, Agartala.

• Siglum: YVEd

This is a provisionary edition of the text, currently still under active revision, based on one manuscript witness

Title	Yajurvedavicāra
Author	unknown

Physical description
Language/Script	Sanskrit in IAST transliteration.
Format	xml
Material	digital
Extent	18 sūtras. With commentary.

History
Date of production	2021 AD
Place of origin	Edmonton, Calcutta, Agartala

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• YVEd

Four Vedas are well-known. There are Ṛgveda, Yajurveda, Sāmaveda and Atharvaveda There are five branches of the eight varieties of the Ṛgveda: Āśvalāyanī, Śāṅkhāyanī, Śākalā, Bāskalā and Māṇḍukeyā. Among them Śākala had five disciples. Mudgala, Gokhala, Vātsya, Śārāra as well as Śiśira were the five disciples of Śākala who made the divisions of the branches. According to the opinion of the commentator of the Prātiśākhya, in the tradition of the Ṛgvedic recitation, there exists (only) the reading of the Śaiśirīya Saṃhitā of the Śākala school as all (other branches) were lost. Since the sūtras of Āśvalāyana etc. are not useful to the main theme they are not discussed in details.

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