མཆོད་སྦྱིན་གྱི་རིག་བྱེད་

མཆོད་སྦྱིན་གྱི་རིག་བྱེད། (Wyl. mchod sbyin gyi rig byed ) Pron.: chöjin gyi rikjé

• Skt. यजुर्वेदः, yajurveda, Pron.: yajurveda. From Sanskrit: 'the sacrificial Veda', the collective body of sacred Mantras or texts which constitute the Yajur-veda (these Mantras, though often consisting of the prose Yajus, are frequently identical with the Mantras of the Ṛig-veda, the Yajur-veda being only a sort of sacrificial prayer-book for the Adhvaryu priests formed out of the Ṛig-veda, which had to be dissected and rearranged with additional texts for sacrificial purposes ; the most characteristic feature of the Yajur-veda is its division into two distinct collections of texts, the Taittirīya-saṃhitā and the Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā | the former of which is also called Kṛishṇa | 'Black', because in it the Saṃhitā and Brāhmaṇa portions are confused ; and the latter Śukla | 'White', because in this, which is thought the more recent of the two recensions, the Saṃhitā is cleared from confusion with its Brāhmaṇa and is as it were white or orderly ; the order of sacrifices, however, of both recensions is similar, two of the principal being the Darśa-pūrṇa-māsa or sacrifice to be performed at new and full moon, and the Aśva-medha or horse-sacrifice ; [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW