Yajnavalkya Kanda. Adhyaya 4, Brahmana 6. The line of teachers
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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.
The line of teachers begins
Now the line of teachers. Pautimāṣya received it from Gaupavana. Gaupavana from a Pautimāṣya. This Pautimāṣya from a Gaupavana. This Gaupavana from Kauśika. Kauśika from Kauṇḍinya. Kauṇḍinya from Śāṇḍilya. Śāṇḍilya from Kauśika and from Gautama. Gautama,
Here begins the line of teachers, each name receiving the teaching from the one named after it: Pautimāṣya from Gaupavana, Gaupavana from a Pautimāṣya, that Pautimāṣya from a Gaupavana, that Gaupavana from Kauśika, Kauśika from Kauṇḍinya, Kauṇḍinya from Śāṇḍilya, Śāṇḍilya from Kauśika and Gautama, and then Gautama (continued in the next section).