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The core text of the Yajurveda falls within the classical Mantra period of Vedic Sanskrit at the end of the 2nd millennium BCE – younger than the Rigveda, and roughly contemporary with the Atharvaveda, the Rigvedic Khilani, and the Sāmaveda. [154] Witzel dates the Yajurveda hymns to the early Indian Iron Age, after c. 1200 and before 800 BCE.
The Yajurveda (Sanskrit: यजुर्वेद, IAST: yajurveda, from यजुस्, "worship", [3] and वेद, "knowledge") is the Veda primarily of prose mantras for worship rituals. [4]
The Prabhāsa-mantra (Mantra of Light, Chin. Guangming zhenyan, Jap. Komyo Shingon) Oṃ O Light of the Jewel-lotus that is the Great Seal of the Unfailing Vairocana advance hūṃ. 3. The Mahāpratisarā-upahṛdayavidyā heart mantra. Oṃ provide, provide, support, support, O Purifier of the Abilities, hūṃ hūṃ ruru cale svāhā. 4.
The Samaveda (Sanskrit: सामवेद, IAST: Sāmaveda, from सामन्, "song" and वेद, "knowledge"), is the Veda of melodies and chants. [3] It is an ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, and is one of the sacred scriptures in Hinduism.
The oral tradition of the Vedas consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras.Such traditions of Vedic chant are often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence, the fixation of the Vedic texts as preserved dating to roughly the time of Homer (early Iron Age or 800 BC).
The major part of the Durwakshta Mantra is taken from the mantra 22 of the chapter 22 in the Madhyandina Samhita of the Shukla Yajurveda. [9] According to Maithil scholar Gajendra Thakur, the mantra 22 of the chapter 22 in the Shukla Yajurveda was chanted for the devotion towards the Nation in entire Indian subcontinent by people in the early times.
The core text of the Atharvaveda falls within the classical Mantra period of Vedic Sanskrit, during the 2nd millennium BC - younger than the Rigveda, and roughly contemporary with the Yajurveda mantras, the Rigvedic Khilani, and the Sāmaveda. [25] There is no absolute dating of any Vedic text including the Atharvaveda. [26]
Gayatri Mantra [67] is the symbol of the Brahman - the essence of everything, states volume 3.12 of the Chandogya Upanishad. [68] Gayatri as speech sings to everything and protects them, asserts the text.