Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c32.26

c32.26

This Yājñavalkya as Vaiśampāyana’s disciple would have been prior to Janamejaya III, and his teaching appears to have been adopted by that king, for, it is said, Janamejaya established the Vājasaneyaka school in disregard of a Vaiśampāyana and in spite of his curse, but ultimately abdicated.³ In other respects this account of the Yajurveda, and especially the Black Yajus, appears from its brevity and indefiniteness and the large number of disciples and recensions to have contracted the succession of teachers; and the three leaders of the Taittirīyas, Śyāmāyani, Āsuri and Ālambi, should be placed soon after Adhisīmakṛṣṇa’s time, if this Āsuri is the same as Pañcaśikha’s teacher (see infra).