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Vedas and Music (Set of Three Books)
Essentials of Sama Veda and its Music	Science of Vedic Metres and Musical Notes	Music in the Vedas

Dr. R.L. Kashyap is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indian in USA. He had his Master’s degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and obtained Ph. D from Harvard University. He is the recipient of many International awards. Recently he has received ‘Vedanga Vidvan’ award instituted by Maharshi Sandipani Vedavidya Pratishthan (Ujjain), and autonomous body of HRD, Govt. of India and ‘Jnana Keerti’ award instituted by Harsha Kriya Foundations, Bangalore.

He has authored more than 350 research articles of which 220 are published in scholarly journals and the rest were presented at conferences. He has guided above 50 doctoral students.

He has written extensively on Veda. Some of his widely read books on Veda are: ‘Krishan Yajur Veda Taittiriya Samhita, ‘Rig Veda-First Mandala’, ‘Rig Veda-Third Mandala’, ‘Rig Veda-Fourth Mandala’, ‘Rig Veda-Fifth Mandala’, ‘Rig Veda-Sixth Mandala’, Rig Veda-Tenth Mandala’, ‘Sama Veda-Purvarchika’, ‘Why Read Rig Veda’, ‘Rudra Mantras’, ‘Essentials of Atharva Veda’, ‘Essentials of Yajur Veda’, ‘Work Enjoyment & Progress’ etc. He is the Honorary Director & Trustee of Sri Aurobindo Kapali Sastry Institute of Vedic Culture, Bangalore.

Sama Veda Samhita is the third in the traditional sequence of four Vedas. All its mantras are risks in some specified metres with names such as Gayatri, Anushtubh etc.

Sama Veda is the earliest known systematic procedure for giving a melody to a verse meant for chanting. Most persons who have heard with devotion the singing of Sama Veda verses will attest to the sense of exhilaration or ecstasy experienced by them. It is no wonder that the famous poem Bhagavad Gita in the epic Mahabharata declares that the Sama Veda is the best among the four Vedas. Each Sama Veda mantra contains in it not only the deep meaning of music. Sama Veda is the Foundation for all systems of music in the subcontinent of India. Note however that mantras in Sama Veda are different from the mantras in the other 3 Vedas in one way. In the other 3 Vedas, a mantra is chanted as the text indicates. However this is not the case in Sama Veda.

Sama Veda Samhita, in reality, has two parts. The first part consists of the text of the rik mantras which are to be sung. It is properly called Sama mantra Samhita. The second part of Sama Veda gives the text or text for singing. Thus every mantra in the first part, is expanded to yield one or more Samagana mantras. Note that there are also several Samagana mantras which do not have a source rik mantra.

Now, only the book of the mantras of the first part is accessible, with relative ease namely the edition of the Pandit Sripad Damodar Satavalekar having 1875 mantras. The book having the text of the Samagana mantras, is available only in specialized libraries. Hence even the so-called experts call the book with only the first part as the entire Sama Veda.

We are happy to present to our readers the second edition of, ‘Essentials of Sama Veda & Its Music’. This book on Sama Veda complements our three other books namely, Essentials of Rig Veda, Essentials of Atharva Veda and the Essentials of the Shukla and Krishna Yajur Veda.

This book has 32 chapters divided into 3 parts. The Part 1 having 10 chapters’ deals with the general information given here is not original, the presentation of this body of knowledge in a compact from is a highlight of this book.

The chapter 19 is particularly interesting because of the use of relatively advanced mathematics in devising a scheme for detecting the errors in the pronunciation of accents during chanting.

Part III having 13 chapter deals with the psychological powers associated with the various deities occurring in Sama mantras and the text and meaning of the associated mantras. Note that symbolism is an integral part of the meaning behind these mantras. The psychological powers associated with the deities such as the will-power, clarity of mental operations, inspiration can be developed with the help of these mantras. Understanding the meanings of words in a mantra and their deeper meanings is of great help in this process.

Contents

 

(i)	Notes to the Readers	V
(ii)	Our New Book: 'Sama Veda: Purva Archika'	v
(iii)	Abbreviations	v
(iv)	Transliteration Scheme	vi
Part I	Structure of Sama Veda and its Connections
1	Introduction	1
2	Mantra Types and Overlap in the 4 Collections	2
3	Sama and Rig Veda	4
4	Structure of Sama Veda Book	5
(i)	Purva Archika
(ii)	Uttara Archika
5	Recensions and Kandarshis	7
6	Rishis	8
7	Associated Brahmana Books	9
8	Upanishads	9
9	Some Well-known Samaganas	10
10	Commentators, Translators & Editors	11
Part II	Sama Chants and Music
11	Preliminary Preparations before Chanting	12
12	Elements of Chanting	13
13	Details of Svara	15
14	Text of the Song and Text of Yoni Mantra	19
15	The most widely known Sama Chant	21
16	Sama Veda, The Seven Notes	23
17	Musical Instruments	25
18	Bhakti Divisions of a Saman Mantra in a rite	25
19	Mathematics of Error Detection in Chants and Error	26
	Correcting Codes in Computers
Part III	Gods and Mantras with Meanings and Text
20	Gods	28
21	Agni	30
22	Savitr and Surya	33
23	Indra, the Lord of Divine Mind	35
24	Sarasvati, Goddess of Inspiration : SV (189)	38
25	Vishnu Mantras : SV (1669-1674)	39
26	Mantras for Purification of the Mind and Body	43
27	Mitra and Varuna	45
28	The Lords of Bliss: Ashvins	48
29	Soma, the Lord of Delight	50
30	Brahmanaspati	51
31	Purusha Sukta (5 Mantras)	53
32	Shanti Mantras : SV (1874,1875)	56
	Appendix 1 : Error Detection	57
	Appendix 2 : More on Accent Marks	60

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Science of Vedic Metres and Musical Notes About the Book When the earth moves around the sun. Sun's position in relation to Earth changes with the change of every solar month (represented: by a Sankranti). The sun describes seven great circles of latitude on the earth during 12 months of a year. These seven great circles of latitude described by the sun are known as the seven major chhandas In this monograph, a humble effort has been made to reveal that not only the Vedas Ideal with the science of cosmology but their composition has also a scientific background. Through this monograph, readers will find that how do the syllable count of Vedic Metres and Musical notes used for chanting metres have a scientific basis.

About the Author Prof Ravi Prakash Arya is a world-renowned Vedic Scholar. Philologist, historian, and philosopher He to a prolific speaker and writer. He is a widely traveled scholar who has delivered more than 350 popular and academic talks on various topics of the Vedas, Indian History. Linguistics, Philosophy Culture and Scientific Indian heritage in various countries of the world. He is doing pioneering work for preserving and propagating the universal and scientific Vedic heritage of India under the auspices of the Indiant Foundation for Vedic Science. He has to his credit 75 research papers and 70 books running into 84 volumes on the various aspects of Vedas, Vedic Sciences. Vedic Exegesis, Vedic Philology. Vedic Philosophy. Religion. Indian History and Culture. He is the Chief Editor of a quarterly Research Journal 'Vedic Science dealing with the scientific interpretation of Vedas & Allied literature and ancient Indian traditions. This Journal is acclaimed as an authoritative document on Vedic Sciences, He is also the editor of the annual World Vedic Calendar. He has convented several national and international conferences. seminars and workshops.

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Music in the Vedas - Its Magico Religious Significance (An Old and Rare Book) About The Book

In this book an attempt is made to study the vedic music as a magico religious phenomenon. Music is believed to be either a power-sub stance or a means to please the gods. Music can attract gods and make them do according to the desires of musicians or it can please gods and then the gods will grant the desired results to the musicians. A musician can get the desired results with the help of music without the help of gods also. Music is useful in order to get rain, food, cattle, long life, progeny, victory in the battles etc. It can be useful to kill the enemies black-magically. The vedic musical instruments also are supposed to be useful in order to get these results.

About the Author

Ganesh Umakant Thite (born in Pune, on 2.5.1944) was educated in Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth and University of Poona. He has been teaching and working as a research scholar in the Department of San skrit, University of Poona, since 1979. He has to his credit the fol lowing works: Sacrifice in the Brahmana texts, Pune, 1975; Car vaka-Samik?a (ed.),Pune, 1978; Yajña-asaya ani aviskara (ed.), Pune, 1979; Medicine: Its magico-reli gious aspects, Pune, 1981. More than 100 of his articles have been pub lished in national and international journals of repute.

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