Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c10.25

c10.25

The Yajurveda. Just as the Sāmaveda is the song book of the Udgātṛi, the Yajurveda is the prayer-book of the Adhvaryu priest. Prayers were accompanied by sacrificial acts about which differences of opinion were more likely to arise. Any deviation in the ceremonial or in the liturgy led to the formation of a new Vedic School. Thus the Yajurveda lent itself to the formation of numerous schools the number of which was 101 in the time of Patañjali (as stated in the Introduction to his *Mahābhāshya*).