The Samaveda text contains notated melodies, and these are probably the world's oldest surviving ones. It has far fewer verses than Rigveda, but Samaveda is textually larger because it lists all the chant- and rituals-related score modifications of the verses. It is a fusion of older melodies ( sāman) and the Rig verses. According to Frits Staal, it is "the Rigveda set to music". The Samaveda is the Veda of Chants, or "storehouse of knowledge of chants". Samaveda recensions from the Kauthuma (north India) and Jaiminiya (central India) regions are among those that have survived, and their manuscripts have been found in different parts of India. The Samaveda set important foundations for the subsequent Indian music. Įmbedded inside the Samaveda is the widely studied Chandogya Upanishad and Kena Upanishad, considered as primary Upanishads and as influential on the six schools of Hindu philosophy, particularly the Vedanta school.
12 BCE or "slightly rather later," roughly contemporary with the Atharvaveda and the Yajurveda. While its earliest parts are believed to date from as early as the Rigvedic period, the existing compilation dates from the post-Rigvedic Mantra period of Vedic Sanskrit, between c. Three recensions of the Samaveda have survived, and variant manuscripts of the Veda have been found in various parts of India. All but 75 verses have been taken from the Rigveda.
One of the four Vedas, it is a liturgical text which consists of 1,875 verses. It is an ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, and part of the scriptures of Hinduism. The Samaveda ( Sanskrit: सामवेद, romanized: sāmaveda, from sāman "song" and veda "knowledge"), is the Veda of melodies and chants. Samaveda manuscripts exist in many Indic scripts. Samaveda is a Hindu scripture in the Vedic Sanskrit language.
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