Whereas the texts of the latter were composed, and are still recited today, in verse only, those of the various Krishna Yajur Veda schools are mixed, with prose passages among metrical ones. The Yajur Veda text generated the largest number of schools in two divisions: the older Krishna (Black) Yajur Veda, with four Saṃhitās (Taittiriya, Maitrayani, Kathaka, and Kapishthala-Katha) and the younger Vajasaneyi Saṃhitā, also known as the Shukla (White) Yajur Veda, with two closely related schools, Madhyamdina and Kanva. Over the centuries, the four Vedas were orally transmitted and edited by numerous schools known as shakhas (branches). In either case, portions of the Yajur Veda are incorporated into ritual handbooks for procedures. Or the adhvaryu may direct actions inside the home in new- and full-moon-day sacrifices, with the yajamana alone or with one to three other priests in the grihya (domestic) schedule patterned after that of In great shrauta sacrifices, including paradigmatic soma and animal offerings, the adhvaryu may direct sixteen or seventeen priests in an arena outside the sacrificer's home. Each has essential ritual roles, but it is the adhvaryu, reciting from the Yajur Veda, who functions as executive priest, assigning sacrificial duties and mantras to the yajamana (sacrificer-patron) and other priests. Four major priests were assigned to these four Vedas, the hota, adhvaryu, udgata, and brahman, for the Rig, Yajur, Samur, and Atharva Vedas, respectively.
A fourth Saṃhitā, the, was added as an important ancient compendium of hymns regarding popular religious practices not directly related to the sacrificial calendar. The great system of sacrifices at the heart of Vedic religion depended upon invocations of deities and ritual prescriptions of the Yajur Veda, literally "knowledge of the yajus (sacrificial formulas)," and the melodies of the Samur Veda, literally "knowledge of the saman (chant)." Together with the Rig Veda, they form a "triple Veda," following a traditional predilection for triads. An "inside" perspective of Vedic heritage, including those Vedic Brahmans still tasked today with memorizing and reciting Vedas as oral traditions, understands the four Saṃhitās as unitary ("the Veda"), eternal, without human or divine origin, and therefore without literary chronology as recognized by "outside" historians and linguists.
The oldest, decidedly seminal Veda, the Rig Veda-1,028 hymns composed in the final centuries before 1000 b.c.-became a source of mantras, cited with additional material in three later Vedas: Yajur, Samur, and, all compiled within two or three centuries. He learnt Ghanam at Keesaragutta Veda Samskruta Pathashala, near Hyderabad.YAJUR VEDA The Yajur Veda is one of four primary Saṃhitās (anthologies) of Vedas, India's most ancient textual authority. Krishna Yajur Veda at Vedapathashala is taught by Ghanapati Sri Katakam Vinod Sharma, native of Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. Thereafter, the next stage is ‘Lakshanam’ that takes additional two years to learn. Together, these are referred to as ‘Moolam.’ Thereafter, one year is needed each for learning padam, kramam, jata and finally ghana. The first six years is needed to learn Samhita, Brahmanam and Aaranyakam. To master Krishna Yajur Veda, it takes ten years of fulltime study (typically from 4 am to 10 pm) to reach the level of Ghannantam. These are respectively: Seeksha Valli, Ananda Valli, Brighu Valli and Narayanam. Krishna Yajur Veda’s Aranyaka part contains Taittireya Upanishad. In Taittiriya Samhita, the rendition can be done in four ways: padam, kramam, jata and ghana. In total, Krishna Yajur Veda has 84 adhyayas, 1279 anuvakas, 4649 panasa. The Aaranyaka has 12 adhyayas, 619 panasa, 290 anuvakas, or 6180 vakyas. Brahmana part is divided into three Asthakas, 28 adhyayas, 338 anuvakas, 1832 panchashat or panasa, 19373 vakyas. This translates into a total of 1,09,287 padaas or 2,53,898 Aksharas (basic characters in Sanskrit). There are 651 anuvakas in Samhita, further organized into 2198 Panchachashats (each Panchashat has 50 padaas or words, referred to as ‘Panasa’ in Telugu). Samhita has seven Kandas, divided into 44 adhyayas (chapters). Krishna Yajur Veda has three parts: Samhita, Brahmanam and Aaranyakam.
In contrast, Rig Veda is broken into Riks Sama is rendered in song form. The Krishna Yajur Veda mantras are in Gadya form (the mantras are continuous in the form of paragraphs and not broken into Padya).