yajurbhir akaroc chÄkhÄ
daśa pañca śatair vibhuḥ
jagá¹›hur vÄjasanyas tÄḥ
kÄṇva-mÄdhyandinÄdayaḥ

 yajurbhiḥ - with the yajur-mantras; akarot - he made; Å›ÄkhÄḥ - branches; daÅ›a - ten; pañca - plus five; Å›ataiḥ - with the hundreds; vibhuḥ - the powerful; jagá¹›huḥ - they accepted; vÄja-sanyaḥ - produced from the hairs of the horse's mane and thus known as VÄjasaneyÄ«; tÄḥ - them; kÄṇva-mÄdhyandina-Ädayaḥ - the disciples of KÄṇva and MÄdhyandina, and other ṛṣis.


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From these countless hundreds of mantras of the Yajur Veda, the powerful sage compiled fifteen new branches of Vedic literature. These became known as the VÄjasaneyi-saá¹hitÄ because they were produced from the hairs of the horse’s mane, and they were accepted in disciplic succession by the followers of KÄṇva, MÄdhyandina and other ṛṣis.

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