🪷 Śukla-Yajurveda · शुक्ल-यजुर्वेद

The Procedural Veda · The Yajña-Handbook · 78 total Adhyāya-entries across 2 surviving shākhās · Maharṣi Yājñavalkya parampāra

ईशा वास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।
"All this — whatsoever moves in this moving universe — is enveloped by the Lord" · Yajurveda 40.1 · Īśopaniṣad 1 · the supreme aupaniṣadic crown of the Yajurveda

🪷 The Two Surviving Shākhās

वाजसनेयि-माध्यन्दिन-संहिता
Vājasaneyi-Mādhyandina-Saṁhitā
The Mādhyandina recension of the Śukla-Yajurveda · 40 Adhyāyas complete
40/40 Adhyāyas available
The dominant North-Indian shākhā · transmitted continuously from Yājñavalkya through the Mādhyandina parampāra · Adhyāya 31 is the Puruṣa-Sūkta · Adhyāya 40 is the Īśopaniṣad
वाजसनेयि-काण्व-संहिता
Vājasaneyi-Kāṇva-Saṁhitā
The Kāṇva recension of the Śukla-Yajurveda · 38 Adhyāyas in source (chapters 1 and 29 not present in available corpus)
38/40 Adhyāyas available
The Maharashtra-Andhra parampāra recension · same 40-adhyāya structure as Mādhyandina but with variant readings · source data ships chapters 2-28 and 30-40

🪷 Landmark Adhyāyas (in Mādhyandina · same chapter-numbers apply to Kāṇva where present)

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🪷 जय यजुर्वेद माता · ॐ 🪷