SB 12.6.74 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

यजुर्भिरकरोच्छाखा दशपञ्च शतैर्विभु: । जगृहुर्वाजसन्यस्ता: काण्वमाध्यन्दिनादय: ॥ ७४ ॥

Verse text

yajurbhir akaroc chākhā daśa paṣca śatair vibhuḥ jagṛhur vājasanyas tāḥ kāṇva-mādhyandinādayaḥ

Synonyms

yajurbhiḥ — with the yajur-mantras ; akarot — he made ; śākhāḥ — branches ; daśa — ten ; paṣca — plus five ; śataiḥ — with the hundreds ; vibhuḥ — the powerful ; jagṛhuḥ — they accepted ; vāja — sanyaḥ — produced from the hairs of the horse’s mane and thus known as Vājasaneyī ; tāḥ — them ; kāṇva — mādhyandina — ādayaḥ — the disciples of Kāṇva and Mādhyandina, and other ṛṣis. .

Translation

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 Vājasaneyi-saṁhitā because they were produced from the hairs of the horse’s mane, and they were accepted in disciplic succession by the followers of Kāṇva, Mādhyandina and other ṛṣis.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

From these countless hundreds of mantras of the Yajur Veda, the powerful sage made fifteen branches. Kāṇva, Mādhyandina and other sages accepted these mantras known as the Vājasaneyi-saṁhitā because they were produced from the hairs of the horse's mane. He made fifteen branches from the hundreds of Yajur mantras he received. Vājasanyaḥ means “taken from hair of the horses of the sun god.”