Yajur Veda Taittiriya Samhita: Complete Text in Devanagari With Transliteration, English Translation and Notes (In 4 Volumes)

Pages: 2129About the AuthorDr. R. L, Kashyap is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana in USA. He had his Masters degree from Indian Institute of Science, l3engaluru and obtained Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the recipient of many International awards. In 2003 he has received Vednga Vidvan award institited by Maharshi Sandipani VedavidyA Pritihthn (Ujjain), an autonomous body of HRD, Govt. of India. He has authored more than 350 research articles of which 220 are published in scholarly journals and the rest were presented at conferences. He has guided above 50 doctoral students. H has written extensively on Veda. Some of his widely read books on Veda are : Rig Veda Samhita (12 Volumes), Sma Veda (2 Volumesb WhyRead Rig Veda, Rudra mantra-s, Essentials of Rig Veda, Essentials of Yajur Veda, Essentials of Sama Veda, Work, Enjoyment & Progress. He is the Honorary Director of Sri Aurobindo Kapli Sastry Institute f Vedic Culture, Bengaluru. Preface and AcknowledgementsI am happy to present here the text and translation of Yajur Veda, Taittiriya Samhita, Knda one. The other 6 Knda-s are available in the other volumes, two, three and four. My aim is to bring out the spiritual and psychological wisdom contained in the 1346 mantra-s of this Kanda. The main source for my work is the essays of Sri Aurobindo on the inner yajna in the Veda and his translations of the Rig Veda mantra-s. The luminous essays of T.V. Kapali Sstry have been very useful. This book has also some prose passages known as Brahmapa-s, dealing with ritualistic explanations of mantras, legends and other topics. In translating these prose passages, I have utilized the English translation of A.B. Keith and the Sanskrit commentaries of Sdyaia and Bhatta Bhskara. The translation of the entire KYTS text has