🪷 Śukla-Yajurveda · शुक्ल-यजुर्वेद

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

🪷 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
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

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

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Sources and Connected Readings

Continue from the two surviving Śukla-Yajurveda shākhās and landmark adhyāyas to the Catur-Veda doorway, Rudram, Puruṣa-Sūkta, Śiva-Saṁkalpa, Īśopaniṣad, Vedānta, Gītā, and Bhāgavata readings.

/yajurvedaŚukla-Yajurveda master index and shākhā doorway/four-vedasreceived Veda inventory with explicit missing-data boundaries/rigvedaṚgveda master index · 10 maṇḍalas · 1,027 sūktasRV 1.1Agnimīḷe Purohitam · opening mantra of the ṚgvedaRV 3.62Gāyatrī/Sāvitrī source routeRV 7.59Mahāmṛtyuñjaya source routeRV 10.90Puruṣa-Sūkta · cosmic Puruṣa foundationRV 10.129Nāsadīya-Sūkta · creation-enigma inquiry/atharvavedaAtharvaveda master index · 20 kāṇḍas · 736 sūktasAV 10.7Skambha-Sūkta · cosmic-pillar witnessAV 11.4Prāṇa-Sūkta · cosmic-prāṇa witnessAV 12.1Pṛthvī/Bhūmi-Sūkta · Mother Earth source routeAV 19.6Atharvaveda Puruṣa-Sūkta recensionYV 16Rudra-Praśna / Śrī-Rudram source routeYV 31Yajurveda Puruṣa-Sūkta source routeYV 34Śiva-Saṁkalpa-Sūkta source routeYV 36Śānti-mantra source routeYV 40Īśopaniṣad in the Yajurveda source route/upanishads10 Mukhya Upaniṣads · Vedānta doorway/mahavakyasfour Mahā-vākyas · Upaniṣadic concentrateBG 9.17Krishna as pitā, mātā, dhātā, pitāmaha and ṛk-sāma-yajusBG 10.22vedānāṁ sāmavedo’smi · Sāmaveda honored by KrishnaŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattva/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bindu reader key/philosophyconstitutional Krishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman foundation

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