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Yajurveda Shakhas (यजुर्वेदस्य शाखाः) (view source)
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(5) The Sapeyi Sakha : Other variations of this name are Sapeya, Sapiyas and Sapheyas. Panini was aware of this name.68 In the commentary on the Katyayana-Pratisakhya the name of Sabiya Sakha is twice referred to.60 It is probable that the Sabiya-Sakha of the commentator is the Sapiya-Sakha. Nothing of this Sakha is known. The Puranas are silent about this Rishi.
(5) The Sapeyi Sakha : Other variations of this name are Sapeya, Sapiyas and Sapheyas. Panini was aware of this name.68 In the commentary on the Katyayana-Pratisakhya the name of Sabiya Sakha is twice referred to.60 It is probable that the Sabiya-Sakha of the commentator is the Sapiya-Sakha. Nothing of this Sakha is known. The Puranas are silent about this Rishi.
(6) The Tapaniya Sakha : This Sakha also, like many others, exists only in references. No literature of this Sakha is preserved. The other variations of this name are Tapayaniya, Tapayana and Sthapaniya.<ref>Ganga Sagar Rai (1965), [https://archive.org/details/puranavolvii015193mbp/page/n12/mode/1up?view=theater Sakhas of the Yajurveda in the Puranas], Purana (Vol 7, No. 1), Varanasi: All-India Kashiraj Trust.</ref>
(6) The Tapaniya Sakha : This Sakha also, like many others, exists only in references. No literature of this Sakha is preserved. The other variations of this name are Tapayaniya, Tapayana and Sthapaniya.
(7) The Kapola Sakha : This Sakha has been totally lost. Even references to this school are not found. The variations of this name are Kevala, Kapola and Kalapa.
(8) The Paundravatsa Sakha : The two other variations of this name are Vatsa and Vatsya. According to the Mahabharata, Paundra is the name of a country which was captured by Krshna. 81 It may be probable that Vatsa, being the resident of Paundra country was called Paundravatsa. In the Tandya-Mahabrahmana a quarrel between Vatsa ond Medhatithi is narrated.82 Here both Vatsa and Medhatithi are called Kanvas, In the Mahabharata
a Vatsa is said to be present in the sacrifice of Janamejaya. In the Katyayana Srauta Sutra a Vatsa is mentioned. No literature of this Sakha is known.
(9) The Avati Sakha : This Sakha is also called as Avatika. The name Atavi occuring in the Vayu-Purana and Brahmanda Purana a is variation of Avati. No literature of this Sakha is available. Panini seems aware of this school. He has mentioned the name of Avati.63
(10) The Paramavatika Sakha : From the name of this Sakha it appears that it was closely related to Avati or Avatika Sakha and the difference between the two was minor. The version of the Vayu-Purana is Parni. Nothing is known of this Sakha.
(11) Parasara Sakha : The ancient textual tradition accepts Parasara as the founder of a Sakha of the white Yajurveda. Panini repeatedly mentions him.64 Whether Panini intended to mean this Parasara or some one else is not certain. The Mahabharata and the Puranas variously refer to Parasara. A Parasara is said to be the father of Veda-vyasa. The Dharma Sutra of Parasara is available.
(12) The Vaineya-Sakha : The other Variations of this name are Vainateya, Virani and Vainoya. Nothing is known about this Sakha.
(13) The Vaidheya Sakha : This Sakha is also completely unknown.
(14) The Katyayana-Sakha :- The variant form of this name is Kaunteya, which is a corrupt form of this name. In the Puranic list of the Sakhas of the White Yajurveda this name does not occur. In the Caranavyuhas also this name is absent. The Srauta and the Gfhya Sutras of Katyayana are available. From the existence of the Katyayana Pratisakhya it may be inferred that originally this Sakha had its own Samhita for which the Pratisakhya was written. Whether the Sutra-writer Katyayana and Katyayana, the grammarian are identical is not known. A Katyayana Rshi is mentioned in the Mahabharata.6a
(15) The Vaijavapa Sakha : Variations of this name are Vaijaka, Vaijapa and Vaijava. A Grhya Sutra of this Sakha is
published66<ref name=":0">Ganga Sagar Rai (1965), [https://archive.org/details/puranavolvii015193mbp/page/n12/mode/1up?view=theater Sakhas of the Yajurveda in the Puranas], Purana (Vol 7, No. 1), Varanasi: All-India Kashiraj Trust.</ref>
=== Other Shakhas ===
As all the texts do not give the same names so many names are not included in these 15 above-mentioned names. Some other names mentioned in the Puranas are as follows :
(1) Audheya or Addha Sakha : According to the Brahmanda Purana Addha is a Sakha of the White Yajurveda* The Vayu- Purana has some different reading and it reads as Vidagdha. Somewhere Udheya is also mentioned as the name of a Sakha. Nothing is known about this Sakha.
(2) The Uddala Sakha :-The Vayu-Purana refers to an Uddala Sakha. The name may be a variant of Addha or Audheya. Nothing has survived of this Sakha.
(3) The Galava Sakha : According to Sayana and the Vayu Purana a Galava Sakha belongs to the White Yajurveda. No literature of this Sakha is available. In the Puranas we meet with Galava several times. But whether this Galava and the Sakhakara Galava are same is not certain.
(4) Th Gaudheya Shakha : In the Samskara-Ganapati this name is mentioned.
(5) The Pundra Sakha : According to the Brahmanda- Purana this Sakha is different from the Vatsa-Sakha.
(6) The Sapatya Sakha :-In the Brahmanda Purana this name occurs.
This is the list of the Sakhas of the White Yajurveda. As already remarked, it is possible that various names of this list may be the corrupt forms of the other names of the Sakhas of the Yajurveda, But at present we have no definite data to trace their origin.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
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