🪷 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
🪷 Landmark Adhyāyas (in Mādhyandina · same chapter-numbers apply to Kāṇva where present)
- ⭐ Adhyāya 16 · Rudra-Praśna / Śrī-Rudram — the supreme Vedic hymn to Bhagavān Rudra · "नमकं चमकम्" · the heart of all Shaivite recitation
- ⭐ Adhyāya 31 · Puruṣa-Sūkta — the Yajurveda recension of the Cosmic Puruṣa hymn (parallel to RV 10.90 and AV 19.6) · "सहस्रशीर्षा पुरुषः सहस्राक्षः सहस्रपात्"
- ⭐ Adhyāya 34 · Śiva-Saṁkalpa-Sūkta — "तन्मे मनः शिवसङ्कल्पमस्तु" · the supreme mind-purification mantra
- ⭐ Adhyāya 40 · Īśopaniṣad — the supreme Mukhya-Upaniṣad concluding the Yajurveda · 18 verses of the most concentrated Vedānta · also at /upanishad/isha
- Adhyāya 22-24 · Aśvamedha-mantras · the horse-yajña
- Adhyāya 30 · Puruṣamedha-Sūkta · the symbolic cosmic enumeration
- Adhyāya 32-33 · Brahma-mantras · "तदेजति तन्नैजति" · the deepest Brahman-collection
- Adhyāya 36 · Śānti-mantras · "ॐ द्यौः शान्तिः अन्तरिक्षं शान्तिः..."
Cross-References
- /four-vedas · The Catur-Veda-Pūrṇatā
- /rigveda · The Oldest Śruti
- /atharvaveda · The People's Veda
- /upanishad/isha · Yajurveda 40 as standalone Mukhya-Upaniṣad
- /bhagavad-gita · The Yajurveda-Upaniṣad smṛti-extract
🪷 जय यजुर्वेद माता · ॐ 🪷