वाजसनेयिसंहिता [ vājasaneyisaṃhitā ] [ vājasaneyi-saṃhitā ] f. " the Saṃhitā or continuous text of the Vājasaneyins " (i.e. of the hymns of the White Yajur-veda ascribed to the Ṛishi Yājñavalkya and called [ śukla ] , " white " , to distinguish it from the Black or Dark Yajur-veda , which was the name given to the Taittirīya-saṃhitā ( q.v. ) of the Yajur-veda , because in this last , the separation between the Mantra and Brāhmaṇa portion is obscured , and the two are blended together ; whereas the White Saṃhitā is clearly distinguished from the Brāhmaṇa ; it is divided into 40 Adhyāyas with 303 Anuvākas , comprising 1975 sections or Kaṇḍikās: the legend relates that the original Yajus was taught by the Ṛishi Vaiśampāyana to his pupil Yājñavalkya , but the latter having incurred his teacher's anger was made to disgorge all the texts he had learnt , which were then picked up by Vaiśampāyana's other disciples in the form of partridges ( see [ taittirīya-saṃhitā ] ) Yājñavalkya then hymned the Sun , who gratified by his homage , appeared in the form of a [ vājin ] or horse , and consented to give him fresh Yajus texts , which were not known to his former master ; cf. [ vājin ] )