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Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā, or continuous text of the vājasaneyins (id est of the hymns of the White yajur-veda - ascribed to the ṛṣi - yājñavalkya). It is divided into 40 adhyāya's with 303 anuvāka's, comprising 1975 sections or kaṇḍikā's: the legend relates that the original yajus was taught by the ṛṣi vaiśampāyana to his pupil yājñavalkya, but the latter having incurred his teacher's anger was made to disgorge all the texts he had learnt, which were then picked up by vaiśampāyana's other disciples in the form of partridges yājñavalkya then hymned the Sun, who gratified by his homage, appeared in the form of a vājin (or horse), and consented to give him fresh yajus texts, which were not known to his former master

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Vājasaneyisaṃhitā (वाजसनेयिसंहिता) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—[Mackenzie Collection] 7 (?). Io. 2125. 2391. 2465. 2479. W. p. 40. Oxf. 364^b. 393^b. 394^a. 396^a. Paris. (D 59 a. 201. 202). B. 1, 18. 20. 26. 28 (and—[commentary]). Ben. 5. Bik. 32-34. 36. Tu7b. 18. Haug. 12. Pheh. 3. Rādh. 2. 43. NW. 20. Oudh. Iii, 2. Np. I, 22. P. 5. Bhk. 5. Bhr. 12. 13. 495. H. 20-22. Oppert. 1567. Ii, 480. 4189. 6951. Rice. 2. 4. W. 1456. 1457. Peters. 2, 170. 171. 3, 385. Bp. 284. 285. Bühler 537. 552. Kramapāṭha. L. 1803. 1804. Bik. 35-44. Peters. 2, 171. Bp. 285. Sb. 41. Kramasaṃdhāna. Lahore. 2. Jaṭāpāṭha. Oxf. 393^a. Bp. 285. Dīrghapāṭha. Bik. 34. 35. Bhk. 5. Vājasaneyisaṃhitā in the Kāṇvaśākhā. Oxf. 377^a. Ben. 9. Np. Ix, 2. X, 2. Mysore. 1. Bhr. 489. Rice. 4. Peters. 2, 175. 3, 383. Jaṭāpāṭha. Oxf. 365^b.

—[commentary] by Anantadeva. Peters. 3, 383.
—[commentary] by Ānandabhaṭṭa Caturvedin. Bl. 2.
—[commentary] Mantrabhāṣya by Uvaṭa. Io. 3215. 3216. Oxf. 405^a. L. 2540. Kh. 56. B. 1, 8. 16. 18. 20. Report. Iii. Ben. 6. 13. Bik. 36 -43. Rādh. 1. Oudh. X, 4. Lahore. 2. P. 4. 22. Bhr. 14-16. Peters. 2, 170. Bühler 552.
—[commentary] Vedadīpa by Mahīdhara. Io. 2465. 2479. W. p. 42. Oxf. 364^b. 395^a. 396^a. Paris. (D 206). Khn. 2. Ben. 7. 13. Rādh. 1. 2. NW. 18. 20. 28. Oudh. Iv, 1. Np. Iii, 94. P. 4. 5. Bhk. 5. Peters. 2, 170. 171. No tradition has come down that Sāyaṇa commented on the Vs. The Mantrabhāṣya and the Vājasaneyabhāṣya attributed to Sāyaṇa in Oppert. 2945. 3451. 6110. Ii, 4920 must be verified by circumspect scholars.
—Vājasaneyiprātiśākhya by Kātyāyana. See Pārshada. Io. 598. W. p. 41. Khn. 61. B. 1, 208. Mysore. 2. Bhk. 8. W. 1460. 1461 (and—[commentary]). Bühler 553.
—[commentary] by Ananta Bhaṭṭa. Bhr. 518. Bühler 553.
—[commentary] Mātṛmodaka by Uvaṭa. Io. 598. W. p. 41. Np. Vi, 6. P. 21. Bhk. 8. W. 1462. Peters. 2, 173. Bp. 258. Bühler 553. Sb. 56.
—[commentary] Vaidikābharaṇa by Gārgya Gopāla. Mysore. 2.
—[commentary] Jyotsnā by Rāmacandra, composed in 1818. L. 1938. B. 1, 208. Bhr. 517. W. 1463. Bühler 553. D 2 (Shridhar R. Bhandarkar p. 4 states the age of his Ms. as Śāka 1678).
—Vājasaneyisaṃhitānukramaṇikā by Kātyāyana. See Ṛgyajūṃṣi. Io. 311. 965. Oxf. 362^a. L. 2114. P. 5. Bhk. 8. Rice. 12. W. 1458. Peters. 2, 170. Bühler 553. Sb. 47.
—[commentary] by Yājñikadeva. Ben. 13. Bik. 151. Np. V, 150. Bhr. 25.
—[commentary] by Holīra. Bhk. 8 ([fragmentary]). Anuvākānukramaṇī. Bühler 553.

2) Vājasaneyisaṃhitā (वाजसनेयिसंहिता):—
—[commentary] by Sāyaṇa. Burnell. 8^b (Errata et Addenda) mentions a fragment. Anukramaṇikā. A Paddhati to it. W. 1459. Bhāṣya and Paddhati by Hala. W. p. 41.

3) Vājasaneyisaṃhitā (वाजसनेयिसंहिता):—Mādhyaṃdīna. Ulwar 116. 120 (pada). 121 (Kramapāṭha).
—[commentary] Mantrabhāṣya by Uvaṭa. Ulwar 117.
—[commentary] by Mahīdhara. Ulwar 118.
—[commentary] by Sāyaṇa. Ulwar 119 ([fragmentary]). Extr. 35. Compare Burnell. Errata 1^a.
—in the Kāṇvaśākhā. Ulwar 112 (adhy. 10). 114 (pada).
—[commentary] by Ananta, son of Nāgadeva Bhaṭṭa (adhy. 32-40). Ulwar 113.
—Vājasaneyisaṃhitānukramaṇikā by Kātyāyana. Ulwar 122.
—Prātiśākhyabhāṣya by Uvaṭa. Ulwar 202.

4) Vājasaneyisaṃhitā (वाजसनेयिसंहिता):—Ak 47 (1-3. 22. 23. 25. 26. 28. 32. 34-39). As p. 170. 171 (pada). Ed. U. L.. 40 (1-20). 41 (21-40). 42 (pada, from 2, 3-15, 9). 43 (pada, 21-24). Peters. 5, 44 (pada). Tb. 5. C. by Uvaṭa. Hr. Notices Vol. Xi, Pref. p. 20. C. by Mahīdhara. As p. 170 (2 Mss.). Bd. 41. Tb. 6 ([fragmentary]). Kramapāṭha. Ak 48 (1). 49 (39. 40.). As p. 170 (inc.). Jaṭāpāṭha. Peters. 5, 45 (1-20). 46 (21-24). Prātiśākhya. As p. 114 (2 Mss.). Hr. Notices Vol. Xi, Pref. p. 20. C. Mātṛmodaka by Uvaṭa. As p. 114. Bd. 77. Vājasaneyisaṃhitānukramaṇikā. Ak 68 (2). Bd. 53. Sarvānukramaṇīpaddhati by Yājñikadeva. Peters. 5 p. 176. 6, 51 (2-4).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vājasaneyisaṃhitā (वाजसनेयिसंहिता):—[=vājasaneyi-saṃhitā] [from vājasaneyi > vāja] f. ‘the Saṃhitā or continuous text of the Vājasaneyins’ (id est. of the hymns of the White Yajur-veda ascribed to the Ṛṣi Yājñavalkya and called śukla, ‘white’, to distinguish it from the Black or Dark Yajur-veda, which was the name given to the Taittirīya-saṃhitā [q.v.] of the Yajur-veda, because in this last, the separation between the Mantra and Brāhmaṇa portion is obscured, and the two are blended together; whereas the White Saṃhitā is clearly distinguished from the Brāhmaṇa; it is divided into 40 Adhyāyas with 303 Anuvākas, comprising 1975 sections or Kaṇḍikās: the legend relates that the original Yajus was taught by the Ṛṣi Vaiśampāyana to his pupil Yājñavalkya, but the latter having incurred his teacher’s anger was made to disgorge all the texts he had learnt, which were then picked up by Vaiśampāyana’s other disciples in the form of partridges [see taittirīya-saṃhitā] Yājñavalkya then hymned the Sun, who gratified by his homage, appeared in the form of a vājin or horse, and consented to give him fresh Yajus texts, which were not known to his former master; cf. vājin)

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