यजुस्

{ yajus }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

यजुस्  n.  n. religious reverence, veneration, worship, sacrifice, [RV.]
ऋच्   a sacrificial prayer or formula (technical term for partic. मन्त्रs muttered in a peculiar manner at a sacrifice; they were properly in prose and distinguished from the and सामन् q.v.), [RV.] &c. &c.
    N. of the यजुर्-वेद q.v. (also pl.)
   of a partic. sacrificial text, [NṛsUp.]
यजुस्  m.  m. N. of a man, [Kathās.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

यजुस् [yajus]  n. n. [यज्-उसि]
   A sacrificial prayer or formula; तां कामयानां भगवानुवाह यजुषां पतिः [Bhāg.4.1.6.]
   A text of the Yajurveda, or the body of sacredmantras in prose muttered at sacrifices; वृत्तगीतिवर्जितत्वेन प्रश्लिष्टपठिता मन्त्रा यजूंषि Sāyaṇa; cf. मन्त्र.
  N. N. of the Yajurveda.
   Ved. Worship, oblation. -Comp.
-उदरः   Ved. an epithet of Brahman.
-पतिः  N. N. of Viṣṇu.
-विद् a.  a. knowing the sacrificial formulæ.-वेदः the second of the three (or four, including the Atharvaveda) principal Vedas, which is a collection of sacred texts in prose relating to sacrifices; it has two chief branches or recensions: the तैत्तिरीय or कृष्ण- यजुर्वेद and बाजसनेयी or शुक्लयजुर्वेद.

Shabda-Sagara

यजुस्  n.  ( -जुः) The Yajur or Yajush, one of the four Vedas; it is di- vided into two principal portions, the white and black, or Vāja- saneyi and Taittirīya, the former of which is attributed to the saint YĀJNAWALKYA, to whom it was revealed by the sun, in the form of a horse; and the latter to TAITTIRI, to whom it was communicated by YĀSKA, the first pupil of its original author, the sage VAIŚAMPĀYANA: according to the Purāṇas the Taittirīya portion was named from Tittiri a partridge; the disciples of VAIŚAMPĀYANA being changed into those birds, to pick up the texts of the Veda as they were disgorged in a tangible shape by YĀJNAWALKYA, at the command of VAIŚAM- PĀYANA: both portions of this Veda are very full on the sub- ject of religious rites, and the prayers peculiar to it, are chiefly in measured and poetical prose.
    E. यज् to worship, Unādi aff. उसि .

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यज् उसि .