Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s4.953

v2.c4.s4.953

¹ Rv. x. 90, 9; Av. v. 26, 1; ix. 6, 2; Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 5, 3, 1; 9, 4; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, i. 30; iv. 1; xix. 28; Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, i. 29, 21; viii. 13, 2; Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, i. 2, 1, 7; vi. 5, 1, 2; 3, 4, etc. In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, vi. 4, 33, there is a reference to the śuklāni Yajūṃṣi, ‘white or pure Yajus,’ as promulgated by Vājasaneya Yājñavalkya, whence the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā is popularly known as the ‘White Yajurveda.’ The theory that this is due to the fact that in the Vājasaneyi the Mantra parts of the text are not accompanied by Brāhmaṇa passages is, though accepted by Weber, Indian Literature, 103, 104; Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 12, xxvii, and others, now to be abandoned. In the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka, v. 10, the expression śukra-yajūṃṣi seems to refer to books iv. and v. of that text. Cf. also Winternitz, Geschichte der indischen Litevatur, 1, 149, n.