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One of four total Samhitas of the Krishna YajurVeda.

Includes Brahmana and Anukramani (index) sections. Taittiriya Samhita: Seven books of hymns and mantras.The Taittiriya school of the Krishna (black) Yajurveda produced several types of texts constituting Sruti Vedic literature (of the YajurVeda). This is significant as the Nirukta references and quotes extensively from the Taittiriya texts (e.g.

Yaska, attributed as the teacher of Taittiri, is also attributed as the author of the Nirukta, a study of etymology concerned with correct interpretation of Sanskrit words in the Vedas. It is there said that Vaiśampáyana taught it to Yaska, who taught it to Tittiri, who also became a teacher whence the term Taittiríya, for a grammatical rule explains it to mean, 'The Taittiríyas are those who read what was said or repeated by Tittiri'.' Nirukta Wilson, states in his commentary to this chapter that 'the term Taittiríya is more rationally accounted for in the Anukramańí or index of the black Yajush. This indicates both Yaska and Taittiri were pupils of Vaiśampáyana. Following a division between Brahmins at Mount Meru - including Vaiśampáyana (whose pupil, Tittiri, is attributed to the Krishna (black) Yajurveda) and Yajnavalkya (attributed to the Shukla (White) Yajurveda) - 'The other scholars of Vaiśampáyana, transforming themselves to partridges (Tittiri), picked up the texts which he had disgorged, and which from that circumstance were called Taittiríya'. This meaning is worked into the account of the stated origin of the School of Tittri in the Vishnu Purana (Book 3, Chapter 5). Taittiri is also stated in the Mahabharata to have attended 'the Yaga conducted by Uparicaravasu'.

According to the Vishnu Purana, Yaska was in turn a pupil of Vaiśampáyana, (estimated 6th century BCE). Īccording to the great white scholar Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary, Taittiri was a pupil of Yaska (estimated 4th-5th century BCE).