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Entry यजुस्

यजुस्yajusn.A sacrificial prayer or formula; तां कामयानां भगवानुवाह यजुषां पतिः Bhāg.4.1.6.
[यज्-उसि]
1. A sacrificial prayer or formula; तां कामयानां भगवानुवाह यजुषां पतिः Bhāg.4.1.6.
2. A text of the Yajurveda, or the body of sacredmantras in prose muttered at sacrifices; वृत्तगीतिवर्जितत्वेन प्रश्लिष्टपठिता मन्त्रा यजूंषि Sāyaṇa; Compare मन्त्र.
3. Name of the Yajurveda.
4. Vedic Worship, oblation.
Derived forms and compounds
- -उदरः Vedic an epithet of Brahman.
- -पतिः Name of Viṣṇu.
- -विद् Adjective knowing the sacrificial formulæ.
- -वेदः the second of the three (or four, including the Atharvaveda) principal Vedas, which is a collection of sacred texts in prose relating to sacrifices; it has two chief branches or recensions: the तैत्तिरीय or कृष्ण- यजुर्वेद and बाजसनेयी or शुक्लयजुर्वेद.
In the Gita9·17

वेद्यं पवित्रमोङ्कार ऋक्साम यजुरेव च ॥

vedyaṁ pavitramoṅkāra ṛksāma yajureva ca. — I the Father of this world, the Mother, the Ordainer, the first Creator, the object of Knowledge, the sacred syllable OM and also the Rik, Sama and… 9·17
- यजुःyajuḥnominative singular of the neuter noun yajus (the Yajurveda).
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