Yajnavalkya Kanda. Adhyaya 4, Brahmana 5. Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi, again
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Each mantra is given four ways: the Sanskrit in its Devanagari script, the same sounds in Roman letters, an English translation set in our own voice, and then the line once more in plain words, for a first and unhurried reading.
Not every passage is opened to the same depth. A few central mantras carry the full cross-school commentary, where the schools are set side by side. The rest are kept here whole and faithful, set in their place but not expounded, so the book stays entire and nothing is dropped for being thought minor.
Where the schools read a line differently, the difference is kept open. None is crowned and none is corrected. Each is met on its own terms, and where they contradict, the contradiction is left standing for you to sit with.
Yajnavalkya's two wives
Now Yajnavalkya had two wives, Maitreyi and Katyayani. Of the two, Maitreyi was a knower of Brahman, while Katyayani had only such understanding as women have. And Yajnavalkya, about to take up another way of life, said:
Yajnavalkya had two wives, Maitreyi and Katyayani. Maitreyi was given to the discussion of Brahman (brahmavadini), while Katyayani had only the ordinary understanding of household matters. As Yajnavalkya was about to leave the householder's life for another mode of living (renunciation, sannyasa), he began to speak.