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Vājasaneyiprātiśākhya

The Vājasaneyiprātiśākhya, ascribed to Kātyāyana, is a prātiśākhya work of the Śukla (White) Yajurveda.
Approximate Date of Creation
First millennium B.C.
Author
Kātyāyana

Text Group

  • Prātiśākhya
    A group of texts

Text Type

  • Treatise
    A type of text

References

  • Pāṭhaka, Yugalkiśora (ed.) (1883), Kātyāyana’s Prātiśākhya of the White Yajur Veda. With the commentary of Uvaṭṭa. Benares: Messrs. Braj B. Das and Co..
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  • Venkataramasharma, V. (ed.) (1934), Vājasaneyi Prātiśākhya of Kātyāyana. With the commentaries of Uvaṭa and Anantabhaṭṭa. Madras: University of Madras.
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Texts

  • Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya
    The Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya, ascribed to Śaunaka, is a prātiśākhya work of the Ṛgveda.

Authors

  • Kātyāyana
    The Vājasaneyiprātiśākhya is ascribed to Kātyāyana.

Linguistic Traditions

  • Prātiśākhya and śikṣā
    Śikṣā (literally ‘instruction’, particularly ‘instruction in reciting’) is the native tradition of phonetics, teaching proper articulation and pronunciation of Vedic texts. Traditionall...
Cite this page:
Shen, Yiming (2021). 'Vājasaneyiprātiśākhya'. . First published on 30 Jun 2021. Last updated on 30 Jun 2021.
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