Doubts on Yajur Veda

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Dear Sri Sudharshan/Bhagawathas,

There are mentions about Yaju Sakais in Srimad Vishnu Puranam too. Here

are the facts as per Vishnu Puranam:

The Acharya of yAgnavalkyar was not parAsarA but Sage vaiSampAyanar whose

name appears in the first portion of

Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam. vaiSampAyanar was the direct disciple of kr~shNa

dhvaipAyana vyAsA who we all know

was son of Sage parAsarA. Also the story about the conflict between

yAgnavalkyar and vaiSampAyanar is slightly

different as mentioned by parAsarar in the puranam.. It goes thus:

vaiSampAyanar and his peer sages take an oath to meet at a particular

time in mEru parvadham and also that

if anybody fails to make it will incur brahma hatthi dhOsham within a few

days. vaiSampayanar fails to make it at

the right time and in a week when he touches a child, the child dies thus

incurring brahma hatthi dhOsham. Thereupon

he calls his disciples including yAgnavalkyar to undertake a vratham to

absolve their AchArya of the dhOsham. yAgnavalkyar

well known for his AchArya siSurushai, says "your other disciples are not

capable of doing this... I will by myself do

this and remove your dhOsham"... This enrages Sage vaiSampAyanar and asks

yAgnavalkyar to quit for causing disrespect to

his other disciples. This is the conflict that causes the guru-sishya to

part and this leads to compilation of shukla yajur

vedam by yAgnavalkyar, as per the puranam.

Also interestingly the name "vAjasaneyaka samhita" for shukla yajur

vedam as mentioned by Sri Mani, is derived from

the term "vAjam" which means horse. Since Surya bhagawan appeared in the

form of a horse and imparted the knowledge

of this vedam to yAgnavalkyar, this name. Also it seems the pundits who

learn this are called "vAjis". These are mentioned

in Sri Vishnu Puranam.

 

We will wait for Sri Vishal to write more on this...

 

adiyEn,

chandrasekaran.