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Complete Shukla Yajur Veda in English (Kanva Shakha)

This is the complete Shukla Yajur Veda in English. The core scriptures of Hinduism are the four Vedas: Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharvana. Each of the four Vedas has four parts: Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and Upanishads. Yet usually when you see a book called "Yajur Veda", it just means the Yajur Veda Samhita. That's what I intend to remedy with this document; this is the complete Shukla Yajur Veda with Samhita, Brahmanas, Aranyaka, and Upanishad portions. I should explain the world Shukla. The Yajur Veda has two forms: Krishna or black and Shukla or white. In Krishna Yajur Veda the Samhita, Brahmana, Aranyaka, and Upanishad parts are all mixed up, whereas in the Shukla Yajur Veda they are cleanly seperated. The Krishna Yajur Veda is not available in English in its entirety, whereas the Shukka Yajur Veda is. One more thing: each Veda comes in multiple Shakhas or recensions. The Yajur Veda used to have over a hundred Shakhas, but now only a handful survive, and only two for the Shukla Yajur Veda: the Madhyandina Shakha and the Kanva Shakha. What is presented here is the Sakala Shakha's version of the Rig Veda. I created it by putting together Ralph T.H. Griffith's translation of t

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