{"id":1668,"date":"2023-12-10T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2023-12-10T10:06:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T14:06:46","slug":"the-vedas-of-vyasa-and-his-disciples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-vedas-of-vyasa-and-his-disciples\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vedas of Vyasa and his disciples"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>1) Origin of the Vedas.<\/span><\/span>
\nAt the time of creation the Veda was born from the face of Brahma. It contained a lakh of granthas with four padas like Rk. From the Veda were born the ten yajnas. The Veda was originally one. It was #Vyasa who divided it into four divisions resulting in the four Vedas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vvasa divided the Vedas thus:<\/span>
\nWhen Brahma commanded Vyasa to divide the Vedas into divisions he first selected four disciples who could see the end of the Vedas.<\/span>
\nHe accepted Paila to study Rigveda,<\/span>
\nVaisampayana to study Yajurveda,<\/span>
\nJaimini to study Samaveda and<\/span>
\nSumantu to study Atharvaveda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides these he selected the highly intelligent Romaharsana Suta to study the Itihasas and Puranas.<\/span><\/p>\n

At first, the #Veda was one. Vyasa divided it into four. He based the division on the caturhotra, performance of four hotris.<\/span>
\nHe arranged the performance of Adhvaryu as Yajus,<\/span>
\nthat of hotri as Rks,<\/span>
\nthat of Udgatri as Samans and<\/span>
\nthat of Brahma as Atharvans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then he separated the Rks to form Rgveda,<\/span>
\nYajus to form Yajurveda and<\/span>
\nSamans to form Samaveda.<\/span>
\nHe devoted Atharvaveda to specify the rites and duties of Kings and the deeds of Brahma.<\/span>
\nVedavyasa thus split the single Veda tree into four and from there arose later a forest of Veda trees.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) The Gurus of Rigveda.<\/span>
\nPaila divided Rgveda into two samhitas and gave one each to Indrapramati and Baskala.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sage Baskala divided his Samhita again into four and taught it to four of his disciples, Bodhi, Adimadhava, Yajnavalkya and Parasara.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indrapramati without splitting his samhita taught it to his renowned son, Mandukeya.<\/span>
\nThe branch of Indrapramati thus went down into circulation through the disciples of Mandukeya and the disciples of the disciples and so on.<\/span>
\nVedamitra of Sakalya gotra, one sage in the line of the disciples of Mandukeya, split the samhita into five, and taught it to Mudgala, Gomukha, Vatsya, Saliya and Sarira.<\/span>
\nSakapurna a godbrother of Vedamitra divided it into three and added a division to it by composing a Nirukta of his own. He taught them to Vaitalika, Balaka and Kraunca. This was how the Indrapramati Samhita produced branches and sub-branches.<\/span>
\nBaskala divided his samhita into another set of three and taught it to Kalayani, Gargya, and Kathajava. The sages mentioned above are the ones who spread Rgveda in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

3) Sages of Yajurveda.<\/span>
\nVaisampayana, disciple of Veda Vyasa, made twentyseven divisions of Yajurveda and taught them to his disciples. Among those disciples was Yajnavalkya, son of Brahmarata. The branch Taittiriya originated from Yajnavalkya.<\/span><\/p>\n

4) The Taittiriya branch.<\/span>
\nOnce all the sages learned in the Vedas made a decision. He who does not attend the Brahmasamaja meeting held at the mountain of Mahameru will be tainted with the sin of Brahmahatya (murder of a brahmin).<\/span>
\nAt onetime Vaisampayana was not able to attend and so was charged with the sin of Brahmahatya. He called his disciples to his side and told them that they should observe a Vrata to absolve Vaisampayana of his sin. Then one of his disciples, Yajnavalkya, stood up and said that he would observe the vrata alone and that there was no need of anybody else in that matter. When asked why he said so he replied that none of the colleagues of his was so brilliant and majestic as he was.<\/span>
\nVaisampayana did not like this arrogance of Yajnavalkya and so angrily commanded Yajnavalkya to give back all that had been taught to him by Vaisampayana. Obeying orders Yajnavalkya vomited all the yajus and went away from the place. The other sages taking the form of the bird, Tittiri, accepted the vomited yajus. Therefore that branch of the Veda got the name of Taittiriya and those sages were known as the Taittiriyas.<\/span><\/p>\n

5) Ayatayama.<\/span>
\nOn his leaving Vaisampayana Yajnavalkya put into operation a new set of Yajus called Ayatayama unknown even to Vaisampayana. This was how it happened.<\/span>
\nYajnavalkya after leaving the Brahmasamaja went and did penance to propitiate the Sun-god. The Sun appeared before him in the form of a horse. Yajnavalkya then requested him to grant him new yajus unknown even to Vaisampayana.<\/span>
\nThe Sun then remaining in the shape of the horse (Vaji) itself imparted to him instructions on a new set of Yajus called Ayatayama which were not known to anybody else, even to Vaisampayana. Those who studied it were called Vajis. There are fifteen branches of the Vajis, Kannu being one of them. All were put into operation by Yajnavalkya.<\/span><\/p>\n

6) The sages of Samaveda.<\/span>
\nVedavyasa taught Samaveda to Jaimini. Jaimini had a son, Sumantu, and he in turn had a son named Sutva. Sumantu and Sutva were very intelligent and they studied one branch each of the Vedas.<\/span>
\nSutva had a son, Sukarma, and he divided Samaveda Samhita into a thousand branches. Sukarma had two disciples: Hiranyanabha and Pauspinji, and both of them studied all the thousand divisions of the Samaveda.<\/span>
\nThe five hundred disciples of Hiranyanabha who came from the north and studied Samaveda were called Udicya Samagas (those come from the north).<\/span>
\nAnother five hundred came from the east and studied Samaveda Samhita from Hiranyanabha and they were called Pracya samagas. (Hiranyanabha is known as Kausalya also.)<\/span>
\nPauspinji had four disciples: Logaksi, Kauthumi, Kaksivan and Langali. These four and their disciples split their samhitas and increased them. Krti, one of the disciples of Hiranyanabha, taught his disciples twentyfour samhitas. They also split them into many more and made the Samaveda bigger.<\/span><\/p>\n

7) The sages of Atharvaveda.<\/span>
\nVyasa taught Atharvaveda to Sumantu. Sage Sumantu taught it to his disciple Kabandha first. Kabandha split it into two and gave. one each to his disciples: Devadarsa and Pathya.<\/span>
\nDevadarsa had four disciples: Medha Brahmabali, Santakayani and Pippalada.<\/span>
\nPathya had three: Jabali, Kumuda and Saunaka. All these made samhitas. Saunaka split his samhita into two and taught one to Badru and another to Saindhava.<\/span>
\nMunjikesa learnt it from Saindhava. He split it into two first and then again into three.<\/span>
\nThe five samhitas of Munjikesa namely, Naksatrakalpa, Vedakalpa, Samhitakalpa, Angirasakalpa and Santikalpa are the most important divisions of the Atharvaveda.<\/span>
\nThe Naksatrakalpa contains methods of worshipping Naksatras; the Vedakalpa contains the rites of the Rtvik Brahma, and the Samhitakalpa contains the science of the care of horses and elephants.<\/span><\/p>\n

8) Puranas.<\/span>
\nVyasa compiled a #Purana Samhita using speeches, appendices, poems and Kalpanirnayas and taught it to Romaharsana Suta.<\/span>
\nSuta had six disciples named Sumati, Agnivarcas, Mitrayus, Sarirsapayana, Akrtavrana, and Savarni.<\/span>
\nAkrtavrana, Savarni and Samsapayana born of Kasyapagotra have themselves made Purana Samhitas. There is another samhita composed by Romaharsana based on the samhitas made by the above three.<\/span>
\nVisnu Purana is based on the latter four samhitas.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are eighteen Puranas, namely, Agni, Brahma, Brahmanda, Brahmavaivarta, Bhagavata, Bhavisya, Garuda, Kurma, Linga, Markandeya, Matsya, Naradiya, Padma, Siva, Skanda, Vamana, Varaha and Visnu.<\/span>
\nThere are eighteen sub puranas also. In all these are described the creation, the deluge, the dynasties of the devas, history of kingly dynasties, changes of generations etc. (Amsa 3, Visnu Purana; 12th Skandha, Bhagavata)<\/span><\/p>\n

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