Samaveda
The Veda of melody: chiefly Rigvedic verses set to chant (saman) for the Soma sacrifice, sung by the udgatar priest.
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Appears in
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
There are four of them. The Rigveda, the Samaveda, the Yajurveda and the Atharvaveda.
- The Unwritten Library Treatise
For roughly three thousand years, the most important texts in India were never written down. They were heard, memorized syllable by syllable, and carried across a…
- Om in the Veda Treatise
The udgitha is the loud, high portion of the chant, sung by the udgatr , the priest of the Samaveda whose whole office is song.
- The Chanted Veda Treatise
The Veda that is sung There is one Veda where the primacy of sound is most visible of all, because it is sung rather than spoken. The Samaveda is the Veda of melody.
- 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 Chandogya Upanishad: that you are Treatise
The Chandogya Upanishad, one of the two oldest and longest Upanishads, belongs to the Sama Veda and runs to eight prapathakas of prose. It moves from meditation on…
- The Kena Upanishad: by whom? Treatise
The Kena Upanishad belongs to the Sama Veda's Talavakara (Jaiminiya) branch and takes its name from its first word, kena, 'by whom?' Its four sections teach that…