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 succession continues
from Āgniveśya. Āgniveśya from Gārgya. Gārgya from a Gārgya. This Gārgya from Gautama. Gautama from Saitava. Saitava from Pārāśaryāyaṇa. Pārāśaryāyaṇa from Gārgyāyaṇa. Gārgyāyaṇa from Uddālakāyana. Uddālakāyana from Jābālāyana. Jābālāyana from Mādhyandināyana. Mādhyandināyana from Saukarāyaṇa. Saukarāyaṇa from Kāṣāyaṇa. Kāṣāyaṇa from Sāyakāyana. Sāyakāyana from Kauśikāyani. Kauśikāyani,
The succession continues, each receiving from the next: Gautama from Āgniveśya, Āgniveśya from Gārgya, that Gārgya from a Gārgya, that Gārgya from Gautama, Gautama from Saitava, Saitava from Pārāśaryāyaṇa, Pārāśaryāyaṇa from Gārgyāyaṇa, Gārgyāyaṇa from Uddālakāyana, Uddālakāyana from Jābālāyana, Jābālāyana from Mādhyandināyana, Mādhyandināyana from Saukarāyaṇa, Saukarāyaṇa from Kāṣāyaṇa, Kāṣāyaṇa from Sāyakāyana, Sāyakāyana from Kauśikāyani, and then Kauśikāyani (continued in the next section).