For the 69 remaining verses, there are no correspondences with mantras in other Veda Samhitas.Įven though this book contains only the 1225 Mantra –s of sama Veda constituting its second part or the Uttara Archika, we will consider in this essay the entire Sama Veda with both the parts.Īll the mantra –s of SV except for 102 mantra-s (66 in purnaarchika and 36 in uttara archika) are in Rig Veda. Thus 1806 mantras of sama Veda can be traced to other Veda Samhitas. Eleven of them are in the current Atharva Veda 4 in the shukla Yajur veda, 2 both in Shukla Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda and one in the Taittiriya Upanishad. The Khila has the mantras from other Rig Veda Shakhas such as Bhaskala, now lost. Among the 102 mantras, five are repeated ten of them which are in the Mahanamni Archika (SV 641-650) are quite similar to the corresponding verses in the Mahanamni sukta of rig Veda Khila.
The listing of these mantras is in Appendix two.Īll the SV mantras, except for 102 of them can be traced to a rk mantra of the currently available Rig Veda Samhita, the so-called Shakala recension.4 The Sama mantra is often a variant of the corresponding Rig Veda mantra could differ in a word or the word ending could be modified. The complier of the Sama Veda perhaps felt that these 214 mantras need special study. There are least 214 mantras in Sama Veda which are common to Rig Veda and Yajur Veda, namely Shukla or Krshna (with some minor variations).3 Many of these mantras are in Atharva Veda also. Yjur Veda Samhita, both the Shukla and Krshna recensions, have both yajus and mantras. The Rig Veda Samhita has only RK mantras. A rk mantra is material, expressed in one of the mantra is meant to be sung. It is SV(76).Īs declared in SV (198) (same as RV)or SV(471), there are three types of mantras in the Veda namely, rk, yajus and saman. For instance the RV mantra ‘Shunam huvema’ occurs in 14 similarly RV occurs in 7 RV suktas. The repition of mantras occurs in other Samitas also. Thus the number of distinct mantras in the Sama Veda Samhita is only 1610.2 In the entire book, the number of verses which occur in three places is four. Specifically 257 verses in the first part are found in the second part. (1) anything that is perfect, people call as saman (2) anything that is not good, as asaman (3) Īn important feature of the Sama Veda is that many mantras are repeated verbatim. “Om, Surely, the meditation on the whole saman is good (or perfect) It gives the following meaning for the word Saman. The remainin g 1225 mantras constituting the second part or Uttara Archika will be published separately.Ĭhhandogya Upanishad is a well-known Upanishad associated with Sama Veda. These mantras constitute the Purva Archika or the first part. This book contains the first 650 mantras of the Sama Veda Samhita along with their text and translation. He is the Honorary Director of Sri Aurobindo Kapali Sastry Institute of Vedic Culture, Bangalore. Some of his widely read books on Veda are: ‘Krishna Yajur Veda Taittiriya Samhita’ (3 Volumes), ‘Rig Veda-first Mandala’, ‘Rig Veda- Third Mandala’, ‘Rig Veda-fourth Mandala’, ‘Rig Veda-Fifth Mandala’, Rig Veda- Sixth Mandala,’ ‘Rig Veda-Tenth Mandala’, ‘Ehy Read Rig Veda’, ‘Rudra Mantras’, ‘Essentials of Atharva Veda’, ‘Essentials of Yajur Veda’, ‘Work Enjoyment and Progress’ etc. He has authored more than 350 research articles of which 220 are published in scholarly technical journals and the rest were presented at conferences. In 2003 he has received Vedanga Vidvan award instituted by Maharshi Sandipani Vedavidya Pratishthan (Ujjain), an autonomous body of HRD, Govt. He is the recipient of many International recipient of many International awards. He had his Master’s degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Obtained Ph.D. Kashyap is professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana in USA.
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