Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yajnavalkya of Mithila was a legendary sage of Vedic India , credited with the authorship of the Shatapatha Brahmana (including the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad), besides Yogayajnavalkya Samhita and the Y¿jñavalkya Sm¿ti. He is also a major figure in the Upanishads. According to Indian tradition, he was the son of sage Devaraata and was the pupil of sage Vaishampayana. Once, Vaishampayana got angry with Yajnavalkya as the latter displayed too much sense of pride in being abler than other students. The angry teacher asked his pupil Yajnavalkya to give back all the knowledge of Yajurveda he taught him. As per the demands of his Guru, Yajnavalkya vomited all the knowledge that he acquired from his teacher in form of eaten food. Other disciples of Vaishampayana took the form of partridge birds and consumed the vomited stuff because it was knowledge and they were very eager to receive the same