saman
सामन् sāmanA melody or chant; the sung verse that gives the Samaveda its name.
Where this term appears
- What is a Mantra? Worship
The Chandogya Upanishad opens by telling you to meditate on the udgitha , the chanted Om at the heart of the Saman chant, as the very essence of the singing.
- The Four Fires Treatise
The book of melody The second collection barely exists on its own terms, and that is the point of it. The Samaveda takes its name from saman , a melody, a chant.
- The Prashna Upanishad: six questions, one year of waiting Treatise
He is led up by the Saman-verses to the Brahma-world; and from him...
- The Taittiriya Upanishad: the ladder of selves, from food to bliss Treatise
Within that is manomaya , the self made of mind, and its limbs are telling: they are the Vedas themselves, the Yajus for a head, the Rik and the Saman for its sides (2.3).
- Om in the Veda Treatise
… speech the sacred verse, and the essence of the verse the chant, the Saman , and the essence of the chant the udgitha , which is Om.
- The Chanted Veda Treatise
In the Samaveda the words are almost a pretext for the sound; what matters is the saman , the melody itself, the sacred shaped as song.