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Samavedaसामवेद · The Hymns of the Samaveda
The Veda of chants: verses, most of them drawn from the Rigveda, arranged for the singers (udgātṛ priests) of the Soma sacrifice. Part I gathers single verses in decades; Part II gathers them in short hymns, usually of three verses. Each decade or hymn is shown with the Sanskrit beside Ralph T. H. Griffith’s English translation of 1893.
Public domain. Griffith’s translation was published in 1893; Griffith died in 1906. The Sanskrit is the Kauthuma recension of the ancient text.
The books
Part I · Pūrvārcika
Part II · Uttarārcika
How to read these pages
- References are Book.Chapter.Decade in Part I and Book.Chapter.Hymn in Part II. The Sanskrit numbers its verses straight through, 1 to 1875.
- Griffith numbers the verses within each decade or hymn. Where the two differ by a verse, the transcription of one side has joined or split a verse.
- Griffith’s translation does not include the Āraṇyaka and Mahānāmnī verses of Part I (Sanskrit 586–650), so they are not shown here.
- Where the two sides divide a chapter’s hymns differently (1.2, 4.1, 7.2), that chapter is shown as a whole.
Layers of this Veda
- Upanishads: Chāndogya and Kena, in F. Max Müller’s translation, on the Upanishads page.
