The Sama Veda is a collection of melodies. The hymns in the Sama Veda, used as musical notes, are drawn from the Rig Veda and have no distinctive lessons of their own. As vedic scholar David Frawley ...

The Rig Veda has over a thousand hymns (sukta) that are arranged in ten chapters (mandala). The first and the tenth mandalas have precisely 191 hymns, indicating that the arrangement of hymns is not ...

Sama Veda is perhaps the earliest human literature on music. It naturally incorporates music, mantra, chhanda, linguistics, and above all, a reflection of the world view of rishis. Sama Veda is ...

For centuries, the Vedic civilization has been regarded as unique to India, based deeply in the subcontinent, which helped to give shape to its spiritual, philosophical, and cultural identity. The Rig ...

TRIPUNITHURA: Nellikkaattu Maamannu Narayanan Namboothiri, the most senior Sama Veda scholar in Kerala, turns 98 on Tuesday. Incidentally, a day before his birthday an Athirathram began at his native ...