यजुर्वेद — {vedá} m. 'the sacrificial Veda', the collective body of sacred Mantras or texts which constitute the Yajur-veda (these Mantras, though often consisting of the prose Yajus, are frequently identical with the Mantras of the Ṛig-veda, the Yajur-veda being only a sort of sacrificial prayer-book for ihe Adhvaryu priests formed out of the Ṛig-veda, which had to be dissected and rearranged with additional texts for sacrificial purposes ; the most characteristic feature of the Yajur-veda is its division into two distinct collections of texts, the Taittirīya-saṃhitā and the Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā, q.v. ; the former of which is also called Kṛishṇa, i.e. 'Black', because in it the Saṃhitā and Brāhmana portions are confused ; and the latter Śukla, i.e. 'White', because in this, which is thought the more recent of the two recensions, the Saṃhitā is cleared from confusion with its Brahmaṇa and is as it were white or orderly ; the order of sacrifices, however, of both recensions is similar, two of the principal being the Darśa-pūrṇa-māsa or sacrifice to be performed at new and full moon, and the Aśva-medha or horse-sacrifice ; IW. 6 ; 245, n. 2) &c##{-kriyāsvara-lakṣaṇa} n. {-jaṭâvali} f. {-tri-kāṇḍa-bhāṣya}, n. {-pada} n. {-brāhmaṇa} n. {-bhāṣya} n. {-mañjarī} f. {-mantra-saṃhitā-sukha-bodhana} n. {-lakṣaṇa} n. {-śākhā} f. {-śrāddha} n. {-śrauta} n. {-saṃhitā} f. (and {tânukramaṇikā} f. {tābrāhmaṇa} n.), {-smārta}, n. ;{dâraṇyaka} n. {dârṇava} m. {dâśīr-vāda} m. {dôpaniṣad} (?), f. N. of wks
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