The highly complex symbolic state ritual known as the Purushamedha sacrifice, which details a long list of human professional classes dedicated to specific cosmic entities, is extensively preserved in which Vedic text layer?

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The Purushamedha sacrifice is detailed exhaustively in the Shatapatha Brahmana and the Shukla Yajurveda. It lists more than one hundred categories of human occupations including dancers, iron-smiths, and astrologers assigned symbolically to different deities, serving as an exceptional historical mirror for advanced labor specialization in the Later Vedic era.

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