The Veda of melodies — Rig Veda hymns rearranged for chanting at the Soma sacrifice. Music as cosmology.
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Tradition
Śruti. The musical Veda; gives Vedic ritual its sung character. Almost entirely composed of verses drawn from the Rig Veda but arranged by melodic pattern rather than mythic content.
Translation
Ralph T. H. Griffith, *The Hymns of the Sāmaveda* (Benares: E. J. Lazarus & Co., 1893). Public domain. Selected hymns; see source for full text. The OCR-derived text retains the original verse numbering and the Decade/Chapter division of Griffith's edition.
License
Public domain (pre-1929 English translation). Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.