Yajurveda

The Veda of sacrificial formulae, the handbook of the priests who performed the great rituals.

Core Characteristics

• Prose and verse formulae matching each action of the sacrifice to its spoken words.
• Survives in two great schools: the Black Yajurveda with commentary woven in, the White with commentary separate.
• Its liturgies made the yajna — the sacrificial rite — the centre of Vedic religion.

Related Concepts & Sources

Vedas, Sacrifice, Indian