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Veda Prasar Samiti Presents
SAMA VEDA KAUTHUMA SAKHA
Traditional Chanting of Vedic Sanskrit Mantras 4 MP3 CDs Pack
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Disk Track Timing Suktam / Manthram
1 13 35:32 to 37:58 Pithru Suktam - 4 to 7
1 7 03:37 to 04:11 Blessings - Aaseervadam
1 8 40:01 to 41:00 Blessings
1 15 10:33 to 10:57 Blessings
1 15 11:17 to 12:10 Blessings
2 18 18:10 to 19:25 Blessings
1 1 29:34 to 30:08 Shree Surya Manthram
1 1 30:38 to 31:46 Shre Sani Manthram
1 5 03:53 to 04:53 Shree Rahu Manthram
1 8 13:57 to 14:30 Shree Budha Manthram
Abbreviations A: Agneyam
Ah: Aheenam
An: Anushtup
Ap, Ar, Arka: Arka Parva
B: Bahusami
Br: Bruhathee
Das, Ds: Dasarathra Parva
Dp, Dwan, Dwandv: Dwandva Parva
Ek, Ekha: Ekaham
I: Iyndram
Ip: Indrapucham
Ks: Kshudram
Mn, Mahana: Mahanaamnee Parva
Pr, Prayasc: Prayaschittham
Pv: Pavamaanam
R, Rahas: Rahasya Gaanam
Sam, Sm, Samvat: Samvathsaram
Sp, Sukriya, Sukriyaparv: Sukriya Parva
St: Sathram
SV: Saama Veda
Tr: Trishtup
UTRC: Utthararchick
Vm: Vimsa
Vp, Vr, Vrat, Vrathparv: Vratha Parva
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Vedas “The Vedas (knowledge) are a large body of texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. The class of "Vedic texts" is aggregated around the four canonical Samhitas or Vedas proper (turiya), of which the first three (traya) are related to the performance of yajna (sacrifice) in historical Vedic religion: The Rigveda, containing hymns to be recited by the hotr; The Yajurveda, containing formulas to be recited by the adhvaryu or officiating priest; The Samaveda, containing formulas to be sung by the udgatr. The fourth is the Atharvaveda, a collection of spells and incantations, apotropaic charms and speculative hymns. The Rig Veda manuscripts have been selected for inscription in UNESCO's "Memory of the World" Register 2007. According to Hindu tradition, the Vedas are apauruseya "not of human agency", are supposed to have been directly revealed, and thus are called sruti ("what is heard"). The Vedas are said to be written down by Ved Vyas during Dvapara Yuga, about 5,300 years years ago. The four Samhitas are metrical (with the exception of prose commentary interspersed in the Krishna Yajurveda). The term samhita literally means "composition, compilation". The individual verses contained in these compilations are known as mantras. Some selected Vedic mantras are still recited at prayers, religious functions and other auspicious occasions in contemporary Hinduism. The various Indian philosophies and sects have taken differing positions on the Vedas. Schools of Indian philosophy which cite the Vedas as their scriptural authority are classified as "orthodox" (astika). Other traditions, notably Buddhism and Jainism, which did not regard the Vedas as authorities are referred to by traditional Hindu texts as "heterodox" or "non-orthodox" (nastika) schools. In addition to Buddhism and Jainism, Sikhism and Brahmoism, many non-Brahmin Hindus in South India do not accept the authority of the Vedas. Certain South Indian Brahmin communities such as Iyengars consider the Tamil Divya Prabandham or writing of the Alvar saints as equivalent to the Vedas. In most Iyengar temples in South India the Divya Prabandham is recited daily along with Vedic Hymns. In English, the term Veda is often used loosely to refer to the Samhitas (collection of mantras, or chants) of the four canonical Vedas (Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda). The Sanskrit term veda as a common noun means "knowledge", but can also be used to refer to fields of study unrelated to liturgy or ritual, e.g. in agada-veda "medical science", sasya-veda "science of agriculture" or sarpa-veda "science of snakes" (already found in the early Upanishads); durveda means "with evil knowledge, ignorant". The Vedas are among the oldest sacred texts. The Samhitas date to roughly 1500-1000 BCE, and the "circum-Vedic" texts, as well as the redaction of the Samhitas, date to c. 1000-500 BCE, resulting in a Vedic period, spanning the mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BCE, or the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Transmission of texts in the Vedic period was by oral tradition alone, preserved with precision with the help of elaborate mnemonic techniques. A literary tradition set in only in post-Vedic times, after the rise of Buddhism in the Maurya period, perhaps earliest in the Kanva recension of the Yajurveda about the 1st century BCE; however oral tradition predominated until c. 1000 CE.” - Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas
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Sama Veda “The Sama veda (from sāman melody and veda knowledge), is second (in the usual order) of the four Vedas, the ancient core Hindu scriptures. Its earliest parts are believed to date from 1700 BC (since all of its verses are from the Rigveda) and it ranks next in sanctity and liturgical importance to the Rigveda. It consists of a collection (samhita) of hymns, portions of hymns, and detached verses, all but 75 taken from the Sakala Sakha of the Rigveda, the other 75 belong to the Bashkala Sakha, to be sung, using specifically indicated melodies called Samagana, by Udgatar priests at sacrifices in which the juice of the Soma plant, clarified and mixed with milk and other ingredients, is offered in libation to various deities. The verses have been transposed and re-arranged, without reference to their original order, to suit the rituals in which they were to be employed. There are frequent variations from the text of the Rigveda that are in some cases glosses but in others offer an older pronunciation than that of the Rigveda (such as [ai] for common [e]). When sung the verses are further altered by prolongation, repetition and insertion of stray syllables (stobha), as well as various modulations, rests and other modifications prescribed in the song-books (Ganas). Samaveda's Upaveda (technical manual) is Gāndharvaveda that deals not only with the topics of music but also of dance and theatre. There are three recensions of the text of the Samaveda Samhita: The Kauthuma recension is current in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and since a few decades in Darbhanga, Bihar. The Jaiminiya in the Carnatic, Tamilnadu and Kerala. And the Rānāyanīya in the Maharastra, Karnataka Gokarna, few parts of Orissa.” - Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaveda
On Vedas
“These are the salient points of the three steps which Indian religious thought has taken in regard to God. We have seen that it began with the Personal, the extra-cosmic God. It went from the external to the internal cosmic body, God immanent in the universe, and ended in identifying the soul itself with that God, and making one Soul, a unit of all these various manifestations in the universe. This is the last word of the Vedas. It begins with dualism, goes through a qualified monism and ends in perfect monism. We know how very few in this world can come to the last, or even dare believe in it, and fewer still dare act according to it. Yet we know that therein lies the explanation of all ethics, of all morality and all spirituality in the universe. Why is it that every one says, "Do good to others?" Where is the explanation? Why is it that all great men have preached the brotherhood of mankind, and greater men the brotherhood of all lives? Because whether they were conscious of it or not, behind all that, through all their irrational and personal superstitions, was peering forth the eternal light of the Self denying all manifoldness, and asserting that the whole universe is but one.” - Swami Vivekananda
E-Books
Sama Veda - Vedanta Spiritual Library Sama Veda - Maharishi University of Management