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Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.s3: III. The Yajurveda

Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.s3

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III. The Yajurveda

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1. **Black** :

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A. **Brāhmaṇa** : *Taittirīya*.

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B. **Āraṇyaka** : *Taittirīya* in 10 books.

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C. **Upanishad** :

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(1) **Taittirīya**, books vii-ix of the *Āraṇyaka*,

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(2) **Mahā-Nārāyaṇa** or *Yājñikī*, book x of the *Āraṇyaka*;

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(3) **Maitrāyaṇa** taught to King Bṛihadratha, an Aikshvāku;

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(4) **Kāṭhaka** (with the legend of Nachiketas);

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(5) **Śvetāśvatara** named after its individual author.

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2. **White** :

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A. **Brāhmaṇa** : *Śatapatha*, the contents of which will be commented on later.

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B. **Āraṇyaka** : the last book of the *Brāhmaṇa*.

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C. **Upanishad** : (1) *Bṛihadāraṇyaka* formed by the concluding six chapters of the *Āraṇyaka*; it gives two lists of teachers which, compared with the list attached to Bk. x of the *Śatapatha*, would point to the conclusion that the leading teachers of the ritual tradition (*Brāhmaṇas*) were different from those of the philosophical tradition (*Upanishads*) ' [Macdonell, *Sans. Lit.*, p. 235]; it contains the famous dialogues between King Janaka and Yājñavalkya; between Yājñavalkya and his wife Maitreyī.

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(2) *Īśa* of eighteen stanzas only.

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