A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s7.23

v1.c8.s7.23

The Taittirīya-Brāhmaṇa of the Black Yajurveda is nothing but a continuation of the Taittirīya-Saṃhitā,² for the Brāhmaṇas were already included in the Saṃhitās of the Black Yajurveda. The Taittirīya-Brāhmaṇa, therefore, contains only later additions to the Saṃhitā. We find here only a description of the Puruṣamedha, the symbolical "human sacrifice;"³ and the fact that the sacrifice is missing in the Saṃhitā is one of the many proofs that it is only a rather late production of the science of sacrifice.