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m The name of the second Veda.
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पु. चार वेदांपैकीं दुसरा वेद . यांत यज्ञकांडाबद्दल विशेष माहिती आहे . [ सं . ] यजुर्वेदी - पु . यजुर्वेद शाखेचा ब्राह्मण ; यजुर्वेदाचें अध्ययन करणारा ब्राह्मण . यजुःशाखी - पु . यजूर्वेदी ; यजुर्वेदशाखीय . [ यजुः + शाखा ] यजू - पु . यजुर्वेदी ; माध्यंदिन ; यजुर्वेदशाखीय . [ सं . यजुः ]
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यजुर्—वेद m. m. ‘the sacrificial वेद’, the collective body of sacred मन्त्रs or texts which constitute the यजुर्-वेद (these मन्त्रs, though often consisting of the prose यजुस्, are frequently identical with the मन्त्रs of the ऋग्-वेद, the यजुर्-वेद being only a sort of sacrificial prayer-book for the अध्वर्यु priests formed out of the ऋग्-वेद, which had to be dissected and rearranged with additional texts for sacrificial purposes; the most characteristic feature of the यजुर्-वेद is its division into two distinct collections of texts, the तैत्तिरीय-संहिता and the वाजसनेयि-संहिता
q.v. ; the former of which is also called कृष्णi.e. ‘Black’, because in it the संहिता and ब्राह्मण portions are confused; and the latter शुक्लi.e. ‘White’, because in this, which is thought the more recent of the two recensions, the संहिता is cleared from confusion with its ब्राह्मण and is as it were white or orderly; the order of sacrifices, however, of both recensions is similar, two of the principal being the दर्श-पूर्ण-मास or sacrifice to be performed at new and full moon, and the अश्व-मेध or horse-sacrifice; cf. [IW. 6; 245 n. 2] ), [Br.] ; [GṛŚrS.] ; [Mn. &c.]
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The name of the second of the four Vedas.
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