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Samveda (Paperback)
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Samveda (Paperback)
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The Samaveda, or Veda of Holy Songs, third in the usual order of
enumeration of the three Vedas, ranks next in sanctity and
liturgical importance to the Rgveda or Veda of Recited praise. Its
Sanhita, or metrical portion, consists chiefly of hymns to be
chanted by the Udgatar priests at the performance of those
important sacrifices in which the juice of the Soma plant,
clarified and mixed with milk and other ingredients, was offered in
libation to various deities. The Collection is made up of hymns,
portions of hymns, and detached verses, taken mainly from the
Rgveda, transposed and re-arranged, without reference to their
original order, to suit the religious ceremonies in which they were
to be employed. In these compiled hymns there are frequent
variations, of more or less importance, from the text of the Rgveda
as we now possess it which variations, although in some cases they
are apparently explanatory, seem in others to be older and more
original than the readings of the Rgveda. In singing, the verses
are still further altered by prolongation, repetition and insertion
of syllables, and various modulations, rests, and other
modifications prescribed, for the guidance of the officiating
priests, in the Ganas or Song-books. Two of these manuals, the
Gramageyagdna, or Congregational, and the Aranyagana or Forest
Song-Book, follow the order of the verses of part I, of the
Sanhita, and two others, the Uhagana, the Uhyagana, of Part II.
This part is less disjointed than part I, and is generally arranged
in triplets whose first verse is often the repetition of a verse
that has occurred in part I. There is no clue to the date of the
compilation of the Samaveda Hymns, nor has the compiler's name been
handed down to us. Such a manual was unnecessary in the early times
when the Aryans first came into India, but was required for
guidance and use in the complicated ritual elaborated by the
invaders after their expansion and settlement in their new homes.
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