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सामवेद

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Script: Devanagari

सामवेद

Puranic Encyclopaedia  | English  English |   | 
SĀMAVEDA   see under veda.<br>

सामवेद

हिन्दी (hindi) WN | Hindi  Hindi |   | 
 noun  चार वेदों में से तीसरा जिसमें गाए जानेवाले स्तोत्र हैं   Ex. हमारे दादाजी नियमित सामवेद का अध्ययन करते हैं । <br>
ONTOLOGY:
मानवकृति (Artifact)वस्तु (Object)निर्जीव (Inanimate)संज्ञा (Noun)

सामवेद

A dictionary, Marathi and English | Marathi  English |   | 
   The Sámaveda, the third of the four Vedas.<br>

सामवेद

मराठी (Marathi) WN | Marathi  Marathi |   | 
 noun  चार वेदांपैकी तिसरा वेद, यातील ऋचा गायल्या जातात   Ex. शामवेदातील बर्‍याचशा ऋचा ऋग्वेदातून घेतलेल्या आहेत <br>
ONTOLOGY:
मानवकृति (Artifact)वस्तु (Object)निर्जीव (Inanimate)संज्ञा (Noun)

सामवेद

A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
साम—वेद  m. m.वेद of chants’, also title or epithet).">N. of one of the three principal वेदs (see वेद)<br>   it contains a number of verses or stanzas nearly all of which [except about 78] occur in the ऋग्-वेद and which, modified in various ways, are chanted, mostly, by the उद्गातृ priests at सोम sacrifices<br>   the संहिता of the साम-वेद consists of two parts<br>   the first, called आर्चिक [or पूर्वार्चिक or छन्दो-ग्रन्थ], contains 585 verses disjoined from their proper sequence in the ऋग्-वेद and arranged in 59 दशतिs or decades, which again are subdivided into प्रपाठकs and अर्ध-प्रपाठकs<br>   the second, called उत्तरार्चिक or उत्तरा-ग्रन्थ, contains 1225 verses, also chiefly from the ऋक्-संहिता, but less disjointed than in the first part, and arranged in nine प्रपाठकs with अर्ध-प्रपाठकs, mostly, however, grouped in triplets<br>   the directions for the formation of सामन्s or chants out of these verses are carefully laid down in the गानs or manuals for chanting, two of which, viz. the गेय-गान and आरण्य-गान, are a directory for the आर्चिक portion, and two, viz.ऊह-गान and ऊह्य-गान, for the उत्तरार्चिका<br>   in [Mn. i, 23] the साम-वेद is described as drawn forth from the sun<br>   in iv, 124 it is described as having a special reference to the पितृs or deceased ancestors, and its sound is therefore said to possess a kind of impurity, whereas the ऋग्-वेद has the gods for his objects and the यजुर्वेद men<br>ब्राह्मण   the साम-वेद is said to possess 8 ब्राह्मणs [see ] [Br.] ; [ŚāṅkhŚr.] &c. ([[IW. 25] ])<br>

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